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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: April 23, 2025

April 23, 2025: The Arctic sea ice has experienced a fairly small decrease for this week 0.39% (last week’s decrease rate was 0.04%), from the level on 04/17/2025 of 13.954 M km2 to 13.900 M km2 for this week. The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.3531 M km2 on 04/17/2025 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.1564 M km2 on 04/23/2025, […]

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: April 17, 2025

April 17, 2025: The Arctic sea ice has experienced an extremely small decrease for this week of 0.04% (last week’s decrease rate was 0.14%), from the level on 04/10/2025 of 13.959 M km2 to 13.954 M km2 for this week.  The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.5932 M km2 on 04/10/2025 to a lesser negative anomaly of -0.3531 M

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: April 10, 2025

April 10, 2025: The Arctic sea ice has experienced a decrease for this week at a pretty small rate of 0.14% (last week’s decrease rate was 0.35%), from the level on 04/03/2025 of 13.979 M km2 to 13.959 M km2 for this week.  The negative sea ice anomaly this week was lower than the anomaly of -0.7676 M km2 on 04/03/2025 to a lesser negative

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Arctic Sea Ice Extent: March 6, 2025

March 6, 2025: The Arctic sea ice has experienced a relatively small increase for this week at a rate of 1.89% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 0.64%), from the level on 02/27/2025 of 13.815 M km2 to 14.081 M km2 for this week.  Despite this increase, the sea ice extent right now is the lowest on record for this time of

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