• Question: How much have the polar icecaps shrunk since 1984?

    Asked by Annie to Gabriel, Cat? on 11 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Cat Scott ?

      Cat Scott ? answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      Hi Annie, quite a lot! ❄
      There are many different types of ice on the planet, there are big glaciers ?, ice that covers the land (like in Greenland) and ice that floats on the sea.
      These all behave a bit differently and there are even different kinds of scientists to study each type of ice!
      We think that all of the types of ice are shrinking, for example we think that the ice floating on the sea at the North Pole was shrinking by about 4% every 10 years since 1984.

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