Posts Tagged ‘ice caps’
Ice Roads Ease Isolation in Canada’s North, but They’re Melting Too Soon
By Dan Levin | The New York Times ON THE TLICHO WINTER ROAD, Northwest Territories — In Canada’s northern latitudes, the frigid winter means freedom. That is when lakes and rivers freeze into pavements of marbled blue ice. For a few months, trucks can haul fuel or lumber or diamonds or a moose carcass to the…
Read MoreSea Ice Shrinks in Step with Carbon Emissions
By Warren Cornwall | Science Magazine The jet fuel you burned on that flight from New York City to London? Say goodbye to 1 square meter of Arctic sea ice. Since at least 1960s, the shrinkage of the ice cap over the Arctic Ocean has advanced in lockstep with the amount of greenhouse gases humans have…
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