Since the last ice age, the Arctic has been melting down. There are a lot of phenomenon that have caused the Arctic to melt, but some are worse than others.

Since recorded in 1979, the Arctic has been losing more than 1.84 million square kilometers, which is almost the same size as Alaska. It is very small considering how big the land used to be. “In 30 years we’ve lost 75 percent of the Arctic sea ice,” said Jamess in the Greenpeace UK Blog.

There are a lot of phenomenon that might be causing the melting of this big land, but here are some of them. One of the biggest impacts is the global warming which is caused by greenhouse gases that are impacting the area.

A phenomenon like this, even if it’s in the northern lands, could lead to big consequences all around the globe. For example, the wildlife that lives on those lands could go extinct and all the Inuts population would have to move somewhere else because there would be no more land. It will not only impact the ones who are living in the area but also the people living all around the globe by having really big temperature changes and territory changes too. For example, a big heat wave could occur and the sea level could rise. To compare, the Arctic is like the fridge of the world. The white snow reflects the heat in space and, if the glaciers come to melt, there will be no more snow and that would create a heat wave all around the world. Coastal communities could also be impacted by this, because of how much the water would rise due to melting lands.

Compared to the Antarctic, the Artic’s sea ice is melting way faster, but why? It is because the weather in the Arctic is way more warm than in the Antarctic caused by the rays of sunshine. Also, there is way less land in the Arctic than there is in the Antarctic which makes it longer to melt.