Dehradun, Sept. 28 -- Witnessing the melt with my own eyes

Around the World with the Most Travelled Indian

In the far north of this world of ours lies the mega Arctic ice cap of Greenland and it is the 2nd largest ice sheet in the world. No prizes for guessing that in the south we have the largest one on Planet Earth named Antarctica (Ant-Arctic or 'polar' opposite to the Arctic). A fun fact is that the north is an ocean (The Arctic Ocean) surrounded by land whereas the south is a land surrounded by ocean (The Southern Ocean).

Greenland and its polar bears have long been the symbol of climate change, as ancient glaciers and surface ice is rapidly melting in this frozen world. This is leaving less and less space for these iconic white b...