Ice melting in the Arctic this year is very fast, approaching record levels that occurred in 2007. Thus the results of observations Roshydromet, environmental agencies from Russia.
The amount of ice-covered area has been reduced by 50 percent from the average. The amount of ice is currently about 2 million square kilometers, below the average from 1979 to 2000.
Ice extent measured even far below the vast sea of Russia in the Arctic, such as the Kara Sea (56 percent) and Laptev Sea (40 percent), the Chukchi Sea (35 percent), and the East Siberian Sea (14 percent). Ice is said to only cover an area approximately 6.8 billion square kilometers.
The researchers said the melting Arctic is the effect of global climate change that occurs with varying intensity each year. They also discovered this year, the ice began to melt between two weeks and two months earlier than usual. This indicates, the overall amount of ice that melts during the year could be bigger.
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