Arctic might end up losing all its ice by 2040

Arctic might end up losing all its ice by 2040

US and Canadian scientists have conducted studies and found out that the arctic region can end up losing all its ice by the year 2040.

Mark Serreze, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre at the University of Colorado in Boulder said in a statement: “The effects of greenhouse warming are starting to rear their ugly head.”

Marika Holland from the US National Centre for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) added: “We have already witnessed major losses in sea ice, but our research suggests that the decrease over the next few decades could be far more dramatic than anything that has happened so far.”

Holland added: “The ice is actually quite stable until 2025 and then boom, it goes.”

A US Geological Survey had earlier found out that polar bearcubs in Alaska’s Beaufort Sea are much less likely to survive compared to about 20 years ago because of the melting sea ice.