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And although in Antarctica the areas covered with ice are constantly increase, this growth does not cover all accelerating melting ice cover in the Arctic. NASA scientists have found that since 1979 The earth is losing icy areas for about twenty-five – thirty thousand square kilometers per year.
According to the latest data (September last year), the great ice cover in Antarctica reached a record value of twenty million square kilometers. But … this does not save the Arctic.
The author of the study of the ice cover of our planet, climatologist space flight Claire Parkinson says satellite observations of our planet show that sea ice is melting, and it is becoming less and less in the Arctic. Scientists are also worried that the process of melting ice as a whole is also accelerating. So, until 1996 ice reduction was observed within twenty one thousand square kilometers per year, now this figure has reached fifty thousand.
Parkinson believes that Antarctic ice growth rates in soon will slow down, leading to even greater imbalance in the increase and decrease in ice cover on Earth.
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