Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Its 2026 Minimum

October 6, 2026 · 12:00 am 2 sources

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• Unprecedented hole opened up in Antarctic winter sea ice
  Nature · October 6, 2026 00:00
  Nature, Published online: 06 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03160-6 ‘Rivers in the sky’ helped to keep an expanse of water roughly as big as Portugal ice-free.
• Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Its 2026 Minimum
  NASA · October 7, 2026 04:00
  Satellite records show Arctic sea ice covering less of the ocean in both winter and summer.