New Arctic - New Discoveries
Thursday, May 30, 2013 - 12:50
in Earth & Climate
New Arctic - New DiscoveriesThe world is warming, but the Arctic is warming fastest. The Arctic of today is not the Arctic which 18th or 19th century explorers knew. Where ships were once likely to be crushed in heavy ice there is now often no ice in summer. Where ice shove once built natural sea walls we find coastal erosion as waves are now free to erode melting permafrost. New islands are being discovered, even as older islands erode away into sandbanks. read more