Telegraph: Arctic summer sea ice reached a minimum 3.41 million sq km this year, around 50 per cent lower than the 1979-2000 average.
However a study by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and NASA found sea ice in the Anatarctic has been increasing over the same period.
The study, published in Nature Geoscience, shows for the first time how winds in the Antarctic cause the change in sea ice cover.
Dr Paul Holland of BAS explained that there have been huge increases and decreases in sea ice in certain…