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  • @OpenStars @darkguyman you can see videos from Mastodon, go to a Mastodon instance and search for [@dansup](https://loops.video/@dansup) (the Loops developer username on Loops)

  • @CatherineLily @cm0002 [3/3]

    What we found was astonishing. Around 2015, surface salinity in the Southern Ocean began rising sharply—just as sea ice extent started to crash. This reversal was completely unexpected. For decades, the surface had been getting fresher and colder, helping sea ice expand.

  • @CatherineLily @cm0002 [2/3]

    This finding caught us off guard—melting ice typically makes the ocean fresher. But new satellite data shows the opposite is happening, and that's a big problem. Saltier water at the ocean surface behaves differently than fresher seawater by drawing up heat from the deep ocean and making it harder for sea ice to regrow.

  • @CatherineLily @cm0002 here whats expected [1/3]

    The ocean around Antarctica is rapidly getting saltier at the same time as sea ice is retreating at a record pace. Since 2015, the frozen continent has lost sea ice similar to the size of Greenland. That ice hasn't returned, marking the largest global environmental change during the past decade.

  • @CatherineLily @cm0002 not completely expected, headlines tend to crop most attention eye catcher line from the article which in context would have a different answer to that to whats put in the headline. per the headline its not completedly unexpected but per the details in context it totally is

  • @cm0002

    The loss of Antarctic sea ice has global consequences. Less sea ice means less habitat for penguins and other ice-dwelling species

    Humans again with mass extinction soon, thanks to climate change deniers