By James Pero For Dailymail.com
Published: 21:22 GMT, 21 March 2019 | Updated: 01:29 GMT, 22 March 2019
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As the impacts of climate change march on, peak volumes of sea ice continue their downward spiral.
According to NASA, this past year was no exception to the rule. This winter, the peak volume of Arctic sea ice receded enough to tie the seventh lowest level of all time.
NASA data shows the maximum extent of the ice peaked at 5.7 million square miles which is 332,000 square miles below the average maximum between 1981 and 2010.
To put that number in perspective, the loss is the same as missing an area larger than the state of Texas, according to NASA.
Arctic sea ice sinks another year even despite a minor reprieve of record declines. This winter, the peak volume of Arctic sea ice receded enough to tie the seventh lowest level of all time
In January, a study of glaciers on Baffin Island in Canada, show that this century has been the warmest one in about 115,000 years.
Scientists say that even though this year's decline didn't rise as far into the record books — since 2015 decreases have continued to set new highs — the trend over time is definitive.
'The temperatures in the Arctic were a bit higher than average and we saw a lot of ice loss in the Bering Sea, but nothing this winter was as extreme or dramatic compared to recent years and the record lows,' said Melinda Webster, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
While 2019
