Tuesday, September 11, 2012

FOR KIDS: A record Arctic melt

Satellites show summer 2012 sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean shrunk to a record low

Web edition : 2:15 pm

During the winter, frozen sea ice covers most of the Arctic Ocean. Every summer, a portion of that ice melts away. Government scientists who keep track of those losses during the warmer months now report this summer has been one for the record books.

On August 26, Arctic sea ice cover fell to 4.1 million square kilometers (about 1.6 million square miles). That?s the smallest ice cover ever observed since scientists started using satellite data in 1979 to measure the yearly melt, note researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo.

Visit the new?Science News for Kids?website?and read the full story:?A record Arctic melt


Found in: Science News For Kids

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/344958/title/FOR_KIDS_A_record_Arctic_melt

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