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Ice breaks away from the Antarctic ice sheet
[Tanya Patrick]
ANTARCTICA’S summer extent of sea ice is set for a record low, environmental group Greenpeace warned yesterday.
Data from the US’s National Snow and Ice Data Centre shows that this year the southern continent’s sea ice will reach the lowest extent on satellite record, it said.
Early measurements show the sea ice around the continent has passed the previous record minimum set in March 2017, of 2.1 million square kilometres, having dropped to 1.98 million square kilometres on Sunday.
Despite opposition from Greenland’s people and Denmark, Washington intends to control the Arctic territory one way or another. Strategic dominance, mineral wealth and military power are the driving forces at play, writes ROGER McKENZIE
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
