Yes, there is floating sea ice in the Arctic; and it's melting!
Scientists used to say the Arctic would be ice free by 2050. Now they think certainly by 2030, and perhaps even by about 2016.
The speed of events is why scientists are so worried. The only known way to stop this melt is to cut greenhouse emissions triggering these changes, and there are few signs of that occurring.
''This is absolutely the critical decade for action,'' said Australian climate expert Tim Flannery.
The Arctic tundra is always cold year round. The average temperature is negative 18 degrees Fahrenheit and get much colder during the winter.
No. You'll find arctic tundra in the Arctic.
Because there is less sunlight hitting the surface there. Which makes it colder
yes!
It is an ice cap (ice berg) found in the arctic.
NOTHING is mined in the arctic. The arctic is only ice.
YES the Arctic has seen ice loss.
The arctic is is mostly ice. Antarctica is a continent that is included in the antarctic region.
yes, with exception that the arctic's ice is melting
There is much more ice covering Antarctica -- about 90% of the earth's store of ice -- than in the Arctic.
The Arctic is a mass of floating ice, so there are no rocks.
The ice sheet exceeds 1500 meters in both of these ice sheets, with the Arctic ice sheet referring to the Greenland Ice Sheet.
There will always be an Arctic becsuse the Arctic is a place. The ice is melting and it is warming and changing, but it will be there. There will always be ice there though, because it still gets very cold in the winter.
Yes, it is colder, by about 30 degrees F. Why? Antarctica is a continent covered with ice. The Arctic ice simply freezes over sea water. The ice area in the Arctic is significantly smaller than the ice sheet that covers Antarctica.
The same as in Greek. Polar, Arctic.
its ice is melting