**Devastatingly low Antarctic sea ice may be the 'new abnormal,' study warns** For most of us, Antarctic sea ice is an abstraction—something far away we may have seen on a documentary. But the radiant white sheets of ice floating on the seas around the snowy continent are a crucial component of Earth's climate processes. https://phys.org/news/2023-09-devastatingly-antarctic-sea-ice-abnormal.html