Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by 2030s, with global, damaging and dangerous consequences
Ice in the Chukchi Sea, north of Alaska and Siberia. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center The Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summer by the 2030s, even if we do a good job of reducing emissions between now and then. That’s the worrying conclusion of a new study in Nature Communications. Predictions of an