RIP Arctic Ice Caps

The arctic ice cap appears to be melting. At least, so says Professor Peter Wadhams, head of the polar ocean physics group at Cambridge University. According to Wadhams,

In about 10 years, the Arctic ice will be considered as open sea.

As a large part of the region is now covered in what is known as 'first year ice', which tends to be much less secure and a lot thinner, the area is likely going to become open water during the summer, within the next 20 to 30 years.