This summer arctic sea ice shrank to the second-lowest level ever recorded since scientist have been satellite monitoring the arctic sea ice. The lowest the sea ice has ever been in recorded history was 1.31 million square miles, this summer the arctic sea ice only extended 1.6 million square miles. There are some researchers that believe that by 2030 the all the ice in the Arctic Ocean will have melted and the the Arctic will be ice free. The more global warming increases and the earth's temperture continues to increase the more arctic ice will melt. If the arctic ice continues to melt sea levels will rise which can cause floods and erosion. Rising sea levels also pose a threat to coastal ecosystems. We need to take action to put a stop to the rising sea levels caused by melting arctic ice. In order to do so we need to find ways to reduce global warming so that earths temperatures do not continue to grow and so the arctic ice no longer melts as much. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/science/shrinking-artic-ice.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fearth
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