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Area covered by Antarctic sea ice falls to lowest level recorded

The area covered by sea ice in Antarctica fell to its lowest level this year, according to records that began in the late 1970s.

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While ice in the Arctic is rapidly decreasing due to global warming, the ice surface in the Antarctic, on the other hand, has tended to increase slightly, by about 1% every decade since the 1970s.