Ice melt hits new low: WHY YOU SHOULD WORRY

With Arctic ice melting at a faster rate than ever before, raising sea levels and causing severe weather, action is needed before it’s too late, reports Stefan Rahmstorf

IN 1845, Captain Sir John Franklin of the British Royal Navy led 128 men on two iron-plated steam ships, Erebus and Terror, into the Arctic, where they eventually disappeared.

The voyage was the culmination of four centuries of failed attempts to navigate the Northwest Passage — a direct route from Europe to Asia across the Arctic Ocean — and remains one of the greatest tragedies in the history of polar exploration.