For the first time in history, there may be no Arctic

The planet's white ice block that covers the north pole will probably break completely this year, allowing boats to pass through the area where the ice was located year-round.

The fact that the North Pole has no land, but for a long time as anyone has seen, it has a huge block of ice covered all year round. Scientists have observed that this northern polar ice is melting more and more each year. But in the summer in recent years, the ice is getting thinner and thinner. And so every cold winter ice creates a thinner, more easily melted summer.

"The problem is, for the first time I am aware, the Arctic is covered by a 1-year-old ice sheet stretching," said Mark Serreze, from the US National Ice and Snow Data Center, in The Independent.

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Several studies in recent years have predicted that the Arctic may not be ice in the next few decades. Warnings are more and more urgent every summer when the ice is constantly thinning. In a study published June 10, scientists said the rapid melting rate in the Arctic could threaten permafrost in the mainland on the Arctic belt, in the so-called is the snowball effect.

Last summer, people recorded record melting in the Arctic Sea, shrinking to more than 30% below its average. At the peak of the melting point, in September, the air temperature above the mainland in the western Arctic from August to October was 2 degrees C higher than the average of 1978-2006.

"The rapid loss of ice can entail vast changes that people across the region will feel," said Andrew Slater, also from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center.