All Arctic ice could melt in ten years

The European Space Agency has said  that new satellites have revealed that 900 cubic kilometres of ice has disappeared over the last year in the Arctic Circle, the Daily Mail reported. [caption id=“attachment_421111” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Reuters[/caption] According to environmentalists this is twice as fast as previously thought. This could mean that in ten years time all the Arctic ice could melt. This would trigger a ‘gold rush’ for oil reserves and fish stocks in the region. “Preliminary analysis of our data indicates that the rate of loss of sea ice volume in summer in the Arctic may be far larger than we had previously suspected,” Dr Seymour Laxon, of the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling at University College London (UCL), where CryoSat-2 data is being analysed, told the Observer, as quoted by Daily Mail.