Study conducted by Australian scientists describes a ‘breakdown’ in link between sea ice and atmosphere as coverage reaches record lows
“While variability may be contributing in some part to the current subsurface ocean warming, we also know that increasing greenhouse gases and increasing temperatures are also contributing,” Purich said.
The sea ice decline is likely to affect Antarctic species such as krill, a foundational species in the Southern Ocean food web, as well as animals that live on the ice, such as Weddell and crabeater seals.are believed to have died last summer due to the break-up of usually stable sea ice at a time when the chicks had not yet grown their waterproof feathers.
Prof Matthew England, an oceanographer and climate scientist at the University of New South Wales who was not involved in the study, agreed that ocean warming was the likely primary culprit.
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