Climate change is rapidly melting away the world's frozen regions, with summertime Arctic sea ice sure to vanish by 2050, according to a report published on Monday.
In just this year, rains fell on East Antarctica in March, as air temperatures were unusually warm. During the summer, the Alps lost 5% of their ice cover. And in September, Greenland set a new record for melting at that time of year, said the report by the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative research network.
The newest report's authors highlighted the "terminal diagnosis" for the ice that forms and floats atop the Arctic Ocean each summer.to keeping warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, there's no credible path to avoiding an ice-free summer," said co-author Robbie Mallett, a sea ice researcher at University College London., which runs through Nov. 18 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.
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