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Melting glaciers – ice in the Arctic may disappear in just a few years – UNIAN
Scientists explain that this could affect the entire planet.
Already in 2027, there may be no ice in the Arctic Ocean for the first time. Arctic sea ice is melting at an unprecedented rate of more than 12% every decade, meaning we are approaching the day when almost all the ice will temporarily disappear, according to a new study in the journal Nature Communications.
This will likely happen within nine to twenty years from now, regardless of whether people try to change the amount of greenhouse gas emissions. And according to the most pessimistic forecasts, this could happen within three years.
“The first day without ice in the Arctic will not change the situation dramatically. But it will show that we have fundamentally changed one of…
