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Thawing chunks of Arctic sea ice trapped and sunk boats in the Atlantic Ocean

March 20, 2018

In the spring of 2017, a thick-hulled icebreaking research vessel, the Amundsen, had left its Quebec port en route to a research cruise in Hudson Bay. But the scientists aboard never made it to their destination: The Amundsen was diverted to rescue unsuspecting ships that had become entrapped by Arctic ice floes that moved into North Atlantic Ocean shipping lanes.

In past years, these masses of Arctic ice had mostly stayed put in their proper ocean — the Arctic — but increasing temperatures caused ice to melt, unclogging the channels connecting the Arctic to the north Atlantic, thus allowing massive surges of ice to flow freely south.   Read more…

More about Science, Global Warming, Glaciers, Arctic Sea Ice, and Climate Change


Source: Mashable | Thawing chunks of Arctic sea ice trapped and sunk boats in the Atlantic Ocean

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