Soapbox Climate

Radical idea could restore ice in the Arctic Ocean

It’s not rocket science, just a lot of windmills and pumps

Melting sea ice in Barrow, Alaska

GOING, GOING… Warmer conditions in the Arctic are melting sea ice (as seen here near Barrow, Alaska). Now is the time to develop ways to save the ice, a scientist argues.

Kate Ramsayer/NASA

By Sid Perkins

- More than 2 years ago

Leave it to a researcher who studies icy moons in the outer solar system to come up with an out-there scheme to restore vanishing sea ice in the Arctic.