Interesting animation series of arctic ice cover over the last 25 years or so, colour coded by age of ice...
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This is the headline on a press release from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado at Boulder. They are one of the goto sources for data about sea ice, either arctic or antarctic.
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