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The Arctic could go ice-free in less than a decade

Even stringent emission limits will not preserve the end-of-summer ice on Arctic seas.
A typical Greenlandic fishing boat in front of the huge icebergs of the (Ilullisat) Icefjord, Disko Bay, western Greenland.

Arctic waters (pictured, near Greenland) could lose all of their summer-end sea ice as early as 2030. Credit: Getty

The Arctic Ocean will lose all summer sea ice in the coming decades, even if humans drastically cut carbon emissions1.

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Nature 618, 437 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01857-6

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  1. Kim, Y.-H., Min, S.-K., Gillett, N. P., Notz, D. & Malinina, E. Nature Commun. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38511-8 (2023).

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