Ice caps melting

Global warming and a huge storm are blamed for the fastest decrease in sea coverage ever seen

An article in the Guardian reports that polar ice caps are melting six times faster than they were in the 1990s. Projections and estimates from previous years are now on track with worst-case scenarios.

Greenland's ice sheet melted at its most rapid rate of the summer on Thursday.

"The word he came up with was solastalgia, a portmanteau word of the Latin solus, which means 'abandonment and loneliness,' and nostalgia."

Melting of the 3km-thick ice cap is one of the biggest contributors to sea level rise but can be halted

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COASTAL cities around the world are in danger of being submerged after it was revealed that Antarctica has lost three trillion tonnes of ice in the last 25 years – and the process is speeding up.