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Monitoring the Earth's polar ice sheets is important to determining their past, current, and future contributions to sea level rise and to mitigate the resulting impact on coastal populations.

Last month saw the lowest extent of Antarctic sea ice on record for July, according to the European Union's satellite monitoring group.

This special episode of Climate Now explores the latest data from the frozen continent and explore how this extreme environment is changing as the planet warms.

All the reported findings are based on computer-generated analyses using billions of measurements from satellites, ships, aircraft and weather stations around the world.

Scientists from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) track the development and recovery of the hole to provide quality-assured information about the state of the ozone layer.