Antarctic sea ice shrinks to record low - researchers

Antarctic sea ice has shrunk to a record low, US researchers say

WASHINGTON: Antarctic sea ice likely shrunk to a record low last week, US researchers said on Monday, its lowest extent in the 45 years of satellite record-keeping.

The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder said that Antarctica's sea ice fell to 1.79 million square kilometers (691,000 million square miles) on February 21.