Quickly retreating sea ice off Alaska is driving another dramatic Arctic melt season
Ice loss in the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas is setting the stage for another season of intense Arctic sea ice melting.
Ice in the Beaufort Sea is scarcer now than in early June of any other year in the satellite record, and the vast stretches of open water off Alaska has helped push the Arctic-wide sea extent to a record low for this time of the ear, according to reports from the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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