Arctic Ice Melt Disrupts Balance Of Greenhouse Gases

RedOrbit: Last year, so much sea ice in the Arctic had melted away that it beat the prior record amount set in the summer of 2007. By the end of the 2012 summer, the Arctic Ocean had lost about 2.1 million square miles of ice, according to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Colorado. Experts began to predict the kinds of trouble such a speedy and significant melt could have on the earth’s ecosystems as a whole. Now, one of these effects has already been seen. According to research from......

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