Oceanus

An open polar sea?

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Season 1 Episode 2
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Not long ago, Victorian-age explorers celebrated the notion of an ice-free Arctic in hopes of finding faster shipping routes between Europe and Asia. Instead, they would find an impassable ice field and treacherous glaciers. Today, warming from climate change is on track to create these once-fabled ice-free days in the Arctic. 

Has the once-celebrated prospect of an ice-less Arctic come back to bite us?

Read the full story written by Evan Lubofsky: https://go.whoi.edu/openpolarsea

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