Warm weather has accelerated the breakup of sea ice in Hudson Bay this year, part of a growing trend of summer sea ice coverage shrinking every decade.
Warm weather has accelerated the breakup of sea ice in Hudson Bay this year, according to data from the Canadian Ice Service, part of a growing trend of summer sea ice coverage shrinking every decade.
, compiled using data from the Canadian Ice Service, shows the ice in Hudson Bay shrinking rapidly between July 7 and July 16. The largest drop occurs between July 12 and July 13, with a large swathe of thinner ice appearing to vanish completely off of the map overnight. In another tweet Saturday, accompanied by a map showing the signals of polar bears which researchers are tracking, he wrote that“Very unusual behaviour that we'll be analyzing over the coming months,” he said. “Shifting behaviour in response to shifting sea ice phenology may be involved. To be clear, it's not adaptation but existing plasticity. It won't help in the long term.”
Between 1968 and the mid-1990s, summer sea ice coverage had more predictable ups and downs, and even at its lowest amount of coverage, there were still around 1.2 million square kilometres covered by sea ice in northern Canadian waters. But over the past few decades, summer sea ice has been decreasing at higher rates.
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