Arctic sea ice suffers “devastating” loss, shrinks to second lowest on record
Buenos Aires, Argentina/Arctic OceanReuters Warming in the Arctic shrank the ice covering the polar ocean this year to its second-lowest extent in four decades, scientists announced Monday, yet another sign of how climate change is rapidly transforming the region. Satellites recorded this year’s sea ice minimum at 3.74 million square kilometres on 15th September, only […]
Sea of Slush: Arctic sea ice lows mark a new polar climate regime
Arctic Ocean/Buenos Aires, ArgentinaReuters At the edge of the ice blanketing part of the Arctic Ocean, the ice on Monday looked sickly. Where thick sheets of ice once sat atop the water, now a layer of soft, spongey slush slid and bobbed atop the waves. From the deck of a research ship under a bright, […]