North Pole Melting Leaves Small Lake At The Top Of The World

The North Pole probably looks a bit different than you would expect right now.
Because, at this very moment, it’s actually a lake.

The time-lapse video below comes from a webcam set up by the North Pole Environmental Observatory that has monitored the state of Arctic sea ice since the spring of 2000. Surprisingly, the pole has been melting since at least 2002, according to photos on the project’s website.

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