The Arctic ice sheet dropped a record

According to research by German scientists, the Arctic ice volume this summer has reached a record low due to the warming of the global climate.

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The area of ​​ice covered in the Arctic Sea has fallen to its lowest level at 4.24 million km2 since the start of satellite monitoring in 1972. The satellite also shows that ice in the Arctic Sea is declining about 11% every decade.

The amount of ice in the Arctic is at a record low. (Photo: AFP)

Scientist Georg Heygster from the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University of Bremen - who tracks the Arctic ice range by satellite and other data, said on AFP , this is a historic low, this new milestone is low. about half a percent more than the previous record in 2007 was 4.1 million km2.

According to scientists, the cause of this situation is due to warming of the global climate along with negative impacts on the local scale and across the planet. This is also evidence of the traces of human impact on the climate model in recent decades.

According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Arctic ice has an important role in regulating the climate in the earth through the reflection of the sun and maintaining the cool weather of the polar regions. .

Animal protection organizations warn, melting ice will threaten animal populations such as walrus, polar bears, seals. Many scientists worry that after 20 years the Earth's northern polar ice will disappear forever in the summer.