Ice at North Pole May Disappear by This Summer
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 06.27.08 | 11:15 AM ET
Travel through a viable Northwest Passage gets closer by the day. From the Independent: “The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice, making it possible to reach the Pole sailing in a boat through open water, would be one of the most dramatic—and worrying—examples of the impact of global warming on the planet. Scientists say the ice at 90 degrees north may well have melted away by the summer.”
Related on World Hum:
* The Implications of a Viable Northwest Passage
* Seven Wonders of the Shrinking Planet
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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