National Geographic have released a new edition of their Atlas map which shows the shocking decline of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean over the past decade.
The animation above, courtesy of National Geographic, shows the change in Arctic mapping every five years between 2000 – 2015 as published in their editions of Atlas of the World.
The following video explores and discusses the change of the Arctic ice and what has changed over the past decade.
“With the trend we’re seeing now, it’s very likely that there will be a day within this century that there will be no ice in the Arctic” – Josefino Comiso, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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They consistently talk about the ice in the Arctic. I’m curious how much the ice is being affected in the Antarctic.
All the ice melting is fresh water why can’t we tap into it to replenish the Midwest aquifer and all drought prone areas. A pipeline for water not oil nobody would protest. Isn’t this possible?
if they are cutting all the tree’s down doesn’t that reduce the oxygen in the air and enhance the heat of the climate doesnt make sense why reduce the amount of oxygen we have when the population is continuously growing always wanted to know why
Im sure thats a big part of climate change
Don i agree with you on that one good question
I am trying to understand how melting ice can effect the sea levels, because if i have read correctly ice has fractionally larger disbursement than water so surly if the ice melted sea levels would actually decrease slightly? please help me to understand.
If it was ice on land like glaciers that slides into the sea it would add to the oceans.
If the oceans contain so much common salt how come sodium and chlorine are not the most abundant elements?
So I’m hoping you can settle a discussion between my wife and I. About 2 weeks ago on a nice day she was cutting my hair outside. The day before we had some rain, I made the comment that the ground was saturated. She said yeah I can hear the water soaking into the ground. I said WHAT? She said she can hear it “sizzling” into the ground. I told her she was nuts, she may be hearing water in the gutters or something. There are no running rivers or streams near us. She has even asked several of her girlfriends and they say they can hear it too! Am I the crazy one? Is my hearing bad?