19,500 square miles of polar ice melts into oceans each year

ENN
Feb 11, 2015, 7:43 am14 pts
Sea ice increases in Antarctica do not make up for the accelerated Arctic sea ice loss of the last three decades, according to the stark findings of a new NASA study. As a whole, the planet has been shedding sea ice at an average annual rate of 13,500 square miles (35,000 square kilometers) since 1979, the…

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