The Greenland Ice Sheet is disappearing and scientists are working vigorously to determine the sheet’s melt rate. In an effort to calculate how fast the ice is melting and how it may affect global sea levels, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is conducting fly-bys along the ice sheet.
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UK explorer, environmentalist, and lawyer Lewis Pugh will be using his unique skill set and talents to accomplish something that hasn’t been done in recorder human history: he is going to Kayak across an ice free North Pole. With many scientists predicting an iceless Arctic Ocean this coming year, Pugh has decided to call attention to the fact by making his away across the now open waters traveling only by kayak, a feat he claims couldn’t have been accomplished even last year, thus affirming the urgency with which he feels we must approach the issue. more »