Within the frothy sprays and barren seas,
Atop the very apex of our Earth,
Anomalies are stirring in the breeze;
Instead of mapping the expected dearth,
The measurements reveal an unplanned birth
Of sediments washed out by distant waves.
Those melting Arctic shelves lacking in girth,
Have caught the wind like echoes trapped in caves.
Another nail for coffins perched on open graves.
Thinning sea ice in the Laptev Sea, north of Eastern Siberia (Photo Credit: NASA).
This is a Spenserian stanza, inspired by recent research which has found that the levels of radium-228 have almost doubled in a region of the Arctic Ocean over the last decade, evidence for
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