Large patches of open water were visible just 37 miles (60 kilometers) from the North Pole on Aug. 29, a NASA satellite image shows. Although this doesn’t necessarily mean that Arctic ice is worse off this year than the past few years, the image reveals how severely climate change is affecting the region, experts say.
The image is from the NASA Worldview satellite photo browsing tool and was shared last week on the blog Arctic News. The patches are “quite striking,” but it’s not…
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