Wednesday, 22 August 2018

Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record | World news | The Guardian

Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record | World news | The Guardian

Arctic’s strongest sea ice breaks up for first time on record

Usually frozen waters open up twice this year in phenomenon scientists described as scary
Sea ice off Greenland
 Scientists say thinning of the sea ice has reached even the coldest parts of the Arctic. Photograph: Nick Cobbing/Greenpeace
The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer.
This phenomenon – which has never been recorded before – has occurred twice this year due to warm winds and a climate-change driven heatwave in the northern hemisphere.

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