How We're Cutting the Ground from Under Our Feet

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By 2050, polar bears may disappear from their natural habitats

Icebergs of impressive sizes continuously break off the Arctic and Antarctic Ice Shelves

You could see the iceberg with a hole at the image. The hole was caused by weathering effects - erosion by waves, wind and melting

This image shows digital true-color images of Baffin Bay. The light blue areas show ponds of water on the sea ice, white areas are sea ice without ponds, and the darker areas depict ice-free water

This sight is extremely common around ice sheets in Greenland, the Arctic, and the Antarctic

This image shows the instrumental record of global average temperatures as compiled by the NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Record low Arctic Sea ice levels in 2007 – showing the Northwest passage open

This image shows the Arctic as observed by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite on September 16, 2007. It shows a record sea ice minimum in the Arctic

Markham Fiord in August 2008 after the Markham Ice Shelf broke away.

ICESat measurements of winter multi-year ice cover in the Arctic Ocean between 2004 and 2008, along with the corresponding downward trend in overall winter sea ice volume

Image comment: Record low Arctic Sea ice levels in 2007 – showing the Northwest passage open
Image credits: Wikimedia Commons

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