{"id":1395,"date":"2025-06-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/sea-ice-lows-high-on-the-agenda\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T10:00:00","slug":"sea-ice-lows-high-on-the-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/06\/24\/sea-ice-lows-high-on-the-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea ice lows high on the agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/06\/trends_in_arctic_sea_ice_thickness_from_2011_2025\/26766072-1-eng-GB\/Trends_in_Arctic_sea_ice_thickness_from_2011_2025_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Trends in Arctic sea ice thickness from 2011\u20132025\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Satellite observations reveal that the extent of sea ice in the Arctic is once again hovering near record lows for this time of year \u2013 underscoring a troubling and persistent trend. This issue is a key topic at ESA\u2019s Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, where scientists are emphasising the critical role that ESA\u2019s Climate Change Initiative Sea Ice Project and CryoSat mission have had in helping to underpin these findings.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, the ability to monitor polar sea ice is in safe hands, as the development of the new CRISTAL mission is progressing well and the first satellite will be ready for launch in the second half of 2027.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satellite observations reveal that the extent of sea ice in the Arctic is once again hovering near record lows for this time of year \u2013 underscoring a troubling and persistent trend. This issue is a key topic at ESA\u2019s Living Planet Symposium in Vienna, where scientists are emphasising the critical role that ESA\u2019s Climate Change [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}