A "New Ocean" Is Emerging at the Top of the World

As the planet warms, the Arctic is warming more than twice as fast. As ice cover is disappearing, average summer sea ice has declined by more than a third since 1979. That’s roughly equal to the entire area of the Western U.S.  https://www.kqed.org/science/1920922/arctic-sea-ice-ulmer
Article courtesy of KQED Science by Danielle Venton