LONDON: The Arctic could see its first “ice-free” summer days, with very little sea ice cover, in the next few years, researchers have said.Arctic ice melts over the summer months, reducing the area of frozen ocean, and then increases again over the winter months, reported PA Media/dpa.But ice cover has been declining as a result of global warming, and predictions have been made as to when the Arctic Ocean could be “ice-free” in September when it reaches its minimum extent at the end of the summer.Ice-free does not mean there would be no ice but is defined by scientists as one with less than one million square kilometres of ice cover, just 20 per cent of what the average minimum cover was in
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