'Remarkable year': What's behind the record low sea ice in Antarctica

By Peter Hannam
Updated November 27 2016 - 9:08am, first published 8:48am
Sea ice off West Antarctica, as viewed from NASA Operation IceBridge. Photo: Mario Tama, Getty Images
Sea ice off West Antarctica, as viewed from NASA Operation IceBridge. Photo: Mario Tama, Getty Images

It was in early August this year when Phil Reid, a climatologist with the Bureau of Meteorology, first noticed something odd happening to the ice around Antarctica.

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