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Low ice in the Barents Sea helped pull the Arctic to a record-tied seasonal peak
Key Takeaways
- NASA tied low Arctic winter ice to conditions in the Barents Sea.
- The 2026 maximum matched the lowest in the satellite record.
- Imagery showed open water and fragmented ice in mid-March.
- ICESat-2 data indicated the region’s ice was also very thin.
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DT Editorial Team··via science.nasa.gov