New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice.
A paper published Tuesday (June 6) in the journal Nature has concluded that those northern waters could be open for months at a time as early as 2030, even if humanity manages to drastically scale back its greenhouse gas emissions.
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