this is alice muir island in the canadian arctic. this strip of coastline was once covered with ice but the nearby glaciers are melting so we can see more and more of the land that lies beneath them. some researchers predict starting in 2050 the arctic will be ice free in summer so what will happen to the region is all that ice melts. this will be almost need to rise and she loves. the arctic helps to determine the climate for a much wider area including parts of the us future climate change to true the ice free feeding. the wall maps the retreat to the arctic in the center. that will cause massive changes here and in other parts of the world. i think is the biggest challenge facing the whole in the future. a challenge or an opportunity during the summer after the ice has melted much attention blooms along the coastline animal bones indicate that wildlife has returned. more and more scientists are coming to the region and several countries have claimed mining rights how will those rights be allocated. to. geologists can now study lan