Being Green

A study published recently by the British Antarctic Survey raised concerns about the record low levels of sea ice around Antarctica. Scientists found that in 2023 – compared to an average winter – the maximum extent of the Antarctic Sea covered by ice, shrank by over two million square kilometres. It found that these historically low levels were a one-in-2,000-year event without climate change but are four times more likely to occur under its effects. In this week’s Being Green, Professor Marchello Vichi, Director of the Marine and Antarctic Research Centre for Innovation and Sustainability (MARIS), speaks to Glynis Crook about the shocking decline.