{"id":1454,"date":"2025-07-04T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/antarctic-waters-getting-saltier-as-sea-ice-wanes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T06:25:00","slug":"antarctic-waters-getting-saltier-as-sea-ice-wanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/antarctic-waters-getting-saltier-as-sea-ice-wanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctic waters getting saltier as sea ice wanes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/07\/southern_ocean_sea_ice\/26787136-2-eng-GB\/Southern_Ocean_sea_ice_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Southern Ocean sea ice\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Using data from ESA\u2019s SMOS satellite, scientists have revealed a surprising shift in the Southern Ocean \u2013 surface waters around Antarctica are growing saltier, even as sea ice is diminishing rapidly. This finding defies the norm because melting ice typically freshens ocean surface water.<\/p>\n<p>The implications are far-reaching as changes in this remote region can disrupt global ocean currents, affect climate patterns, and alter ecosystems far beyond the Antarctic.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using data from ESA\u2019s SMOS satellite, scientists have revealed a surprising shift in the Southern Ocean \u2013 surface waters around Antarctica are growing saltier, even as sea ice is diminishing rapidly. This finding defies the norm because melting ice typically freshens ocean surface water. The implications are far-reaching as changes in this remote region can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","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\/1454","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=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}