Arctic Sea Ice Cover Hits Record Lows in 2023

By Anna Fleck

New research has found that the Arctic could be almost free of floating sea ice during summer by the 2030s – roughly a decade sooner than previously thought. Scientists say as much as 90 percent of the melting is the result of human-caused global warming and that even if extreme emission-reducing steps were taken, it is now too late to save the region’s summer ice.