Ice melting News
According to researchers, 500 meters by car with a mid-range vehicle will cost one kilogram of glacier ice in the long run.
Last year also saw near record-lows for the wintertime maximum sea ice cover, at 18.05 million square kilometers.
Based on the data, researchers estimated that the loss of heat from the Earth's interior to the fjord is about 100 MW m-2 (milliWatt per square metre).
The region around the north pole "shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region it was decades ago," the report said.
Over the years, the dramatic meltdown of ice in the Arctic Ocean has received great attention and is easy to observe through satellite images.
The scientists felt it was unlikely that this year's summertime sea ice minimum extent will set a new record, but, it seems that they've been proven wrong.
The melt slowed down in June, but scientists say the rate of ice loss picked up again during the first two weeks of August, and is now greater than average for this time of the year.
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