Sentence examples for record extents from inspiring English sources

The contrasting nature of the changes was highlighted in September 2012 when both polar regions experienced new record extents of sea ice for the satellite era.

In 2013, for the second year in a row, Antarctic sea ice grew to a record extent: the continent's ice reached more than 19.5m square kilometres (12m square miles) in September.

That is greater than anything seen in the continuous 1979-2012 data-set - largevenven than the "record" extent of 19.44 million sq km achieved last year.

Attitudes about the media's "watchdog" role are polarized to a record extent.

Greenpeace held a meeting on the polar emergency in New York City, by chance on the same day the record extent minimum was called, and while on the surface it seemed pretty ordinary, it was at heart very odd.

Climate scientists have been struggling to explain why sea ice around Antarctica has been growing, reaching a record extent in the winter of 2010, when ice on the Arctic Ocean at the other end of the planet shrank to a record low in 2012.

The Arctic sea ice shrank to its lowest recorded extent.

Unusually high temperatures in January led to January seeing the lowest recorded extent of sea ice in the satellite record.

In July, the iceberg known as A68 broke off the shelf, leaving the area at its lowest recorded extent.

Arctic sea ice is set to reach its lowest ever recorded extent as early as this weekend, in "dramatic changes" signalling that man-made global warming is having a major impact on the polar region.

There have also been other strong indicators of climate change, including the shrinking of Arctic sea ice - which reached its lowest recorded extent last year and is also diminishing in volume - and the retreat of glaciers around the world.