{"id":51938,"date":"2020-09-24T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/?p=51938"},"modified":"2021-06-10T14:44:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T12:44:52","slug":"arctic-sea-ice-shrinks-second-lowest-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/arctic-sea-ice-shrinks-second-lowest-level\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to the Second-Lowest Level on Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"QT4TQE4FzUs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Arctic sea ice shrinks to second-lowest level on record due to rising temperatures\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QT4TQE4FzUs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder reported that <span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-09-arctic-summer-sea-ice-lowest.html\">the Arctic sea ice has shrank to the second-lowest level on record<\/a><\/span>. Satellites recorded a sea ice covering of 3.74 million square kilometres on 15 September, which is only the second time in the past forty years that the ice covering has dropped below 4 million square kilometres.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-climate-change-sea-ice\/arctic-sea-ice-suffers-devastating-loss-shrinks-to-second-lowest-on-record-idUKKCN26C2PP\">The record low within the past forty years of record keeping came in 2012<\/a>, when a late-season cyclonic storm broke up an already depleted layer of ice, leaving only 3.41 million square kilometres. <span style=\"font-size: inherit; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica sans-serif';\">This year&#8217;s decline hastened between late August and early September, owing to pulses of warm air from Siberia, which has been in the throes of an unprecedented heatwave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-size: inherit; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica sans-serif';\" href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/cultureteca-21-06-20\/\">In July the small town of Verkhoyansk in the Sakha Republic reached a temperature of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit)<\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica sans-serif';\">, a new record high for the Arctic region. Wildfires raged across Siberia during the summer months, <\/span><a style=\"font-size: inherit; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica sans-serif';\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02568-y\">releasing record levels of carbon dioxide as they burned up carbon-rich peatlands<\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica sans-serif';\">. An international team of scientists subsequently concluded that the heatwave would have been <\/span><a style=\"font-size: inherit; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica sans-serif';\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/science-environment-53415297\">&#8216;almost impossible&#8217;<\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica sans-serif';\"> without man-made climate change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Developments in the Arctic, <a href=\"https:\/\/nsidc.org\/cryosphere\/arctic-meteorology\/climate_change.html\">which is warming at twice the rate of the rest of the globe<\/a>, cap another damaging year for the environment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/will-2020-be-the-hottest-year-on-record\/\">2020 will be one of the hottest years on record<\/a>, while reduced emissions in the face of the coronavirus pandemic have failed to halt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2020\/06\/04\/carbon-dioxide-record-2020\/\">record levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide<\/a>. Devastating fire seasons in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-02-19\/australia-bushfires-how-heat-and-drought-created-a-tinderbox\/11976134?nw=0\">Australia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/projects\/california-fires-damage-climate-change-analysis\/\">California<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-020-02716-4\">the Pantanal region<\/a> of South America, <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Spotlight\/Asia-Insight\/Flooded-Asia-Climate-change-hits-region-the-hardest\">flooding across Asia<\/a>, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-52977740\">major oil spill near Norilsk<\/a> have destroyed homes, contaminated our air and water, and ravaged animal habitats.<\/p>\n<p>The Living Planet Report 2020 showed that <a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/cultureteca-13-09-20\/\">global animal populations declined by an average of 68 percent between 1970 and 2016<\/a>. 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