Melting Glaciers Are Causing Billions of Dollars of Damage
In the Arctic, sea ice has shrunk 40% in the past 40 years. In the Antarctic, sea ice extent has fallen below 2 million square kilometers for the third summer in a row, an unprecedented an “regime shift” from seasonal variation to long-term retreat.
Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and losses to tourism and fishing