Arctic Ocean: Ice disappearing from Arctic Ocean, new study reveals

Global warming is constantly becoming a threat to our earth. Even though many concrete steps are being taken for this and international level is being discussed, but despite all this, climate change has started to have a terrible effect on the ecosystem. It is believed that its impact will continue to increase in the coming years. According to a new scientific study, summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean can disappear completely by 2030, that is, by 2023, there will be no ice in this ocean.

A study published in the journal Nature Communications found that limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in accordance with the Paris climate agreement will not prevent the vast expanse of North Pole's floating ice from melting.

"It's too late to preserve Arctic summer sea ice as a landscape and habitat," said co-author Dirk Notz, a professor at the University of Hamburg's Institute of Oceanography.

"We're going to lose the Arctic Summer Sea-Ice Cover very soon, basically independent of what we're doing. We're too late to do anything about climate change to protect the remaining ice."

Let us tell you that the disappearance of snow has a serious impact on the weather, humans and ecosystems, not only in that region but on the whole world. "It could accelerate global warming by melting Greenland's ice sheet and melting greenhouse gas-laden permafrost," said lead author Seung-Ki Min, a researcher at Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea.

Scientists can call the Arctic Ocean ice-free if the area covered by ice is less than one million square kilometers or about seven percent of the total area of the ocean.

Sea ice in Antarctica fell to 1.92 million square kilometres in February, the lowest level on record and about one million square kilometres below the 1991-2020 average.

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