London team raise alarm over dramatic Arctic thaw after shocking field trip

London team raise alarm over dramatic Arctic thaw after shocking field trip

Scientists from a London university have raised a fresh alarm about the speed of global warming underway in the Arctic after a field trip earlier this year.Puddles on the ice and melting snow in Svalbard (c) James BradleyThe team from Queen Mary University planned to study freshly fallen snow. But over a two-week period, they said they were only able to collect fresh snow once, as most of the precipitation fell as rain. This undermined the resea…