Arctic sea ice may make a last stand in this remote region; it may lose the battle

With warming climate, summer sea ice in the Arctic has been shrinking fast, and now consistently spans less than half the area it did in the early 1980s. This raises the question: It this keeps up, in the future will year-round sea ice — and the creatures who need it to survive — persist anywhere? A new study addresses this question, and the results are daunting.