Within this decade, the Arctic may see days with no floating ice.
The Arctic may become ice-free for the first time on a late August or early September day in the 2020s to 2030s, 10 years earlier than expected, a shocking new study finds. The polar region has been losing sea ice at an accelerated rate, shrinking by 12.2% each decade due to warmer temperatures.
Instead, scientists consider the polar region having ice-free conditions when the ocean has less than 386,000 square miles of ice. On average, ice covers 6 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean. That’s a significant decrease, but the researchers behind the new study don’t want us to lose hope yet. As of now, an ice-free Arctic is inevitable under all emissions scenarios.
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