Even minor temperature changes show drastic impacts on Earth's North and South poles and soon one of them will turn ice-free.
The first explorers known to have reached the North Pole spent weeks dragging their ... their passage eased by the catastrophic melting of ice caused by climate change. The Arctic is shedding ...
Without a significant reduction in atmospheric carbon levels, there may not be enough ice to ski to the North Pole in the coming decades. The melting of these ice sheets exemplifies one of the many ...
Led by Fridtjof Nansen (second from left), the explorers failed to reach the North Pole ... says sea-ice physicist Gunnar Spreen. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF NORWAY An entire ecosystem is melting away.