Weather Changes Accelerate Arctic Sea Ice Melting

Melting sea ice is forming characteristic puddles on its surface. Image – NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
ZURICH – CLIMATE – In the winter of 2015/16, something happened that had never before been seen on this scale: at the end of December, temperatures rose above zero degrees Celsius for several days in parts of the Arctic. Temperatures of up to eight degrees were registered north of Svalbard. Temperatures this high have not been recorded in the winter half of the year since