Antarctica Ice Loss 2024. Daily antarctic sea ice extent for 2024, compared with recent years and the low ice years of 1980, 1986 and 2002. Antarctica is losing ice mass to the ocean, contributing to global sea level rise.
The 2024 image below shows the changes in ice sheet mass between 2002 and 2023. Scientists have looked back in time to reconstruct the past life of antarctica’s “doomsday glacier” — nicknamed because its collapse could cause catastrophic sea level.