Antarctica Ice Loss 2025 Schedule

Antarctica Ice Loss 2025 Schedule. This was the 2 nd lowest september extent on record, after 16.80 million sq km in 2023, and. The ice shelves shown to be losing ice in the cryosphere paper — many in west antarctica — tend to be more important for buttressing the ice sheet than the ice shelves that.

Research based on satellite data indicates that between 2002 and 2023, antarctica shed an average of 150 billion metric tons of ice per year, adding to global sea. Evolution of sea ice extent during the summer in 2025 and previous years is shown for context.