Recent developments of climate researches feature a great Arctic meltdown, which threatens environmental imbalance, including both human and animal habitat. The thing is that climate change, temperature increase specifically, encourages faster melting of ice in the northern areas of the Earth, called Arctic. During last decades big amounts of greenhouse gases were produced and ‚¬"invested‚¬ into atmosphere, which affected much temperature shifts and, certainly, the process of ice melting. According to experts' opinion, the image of Arctic might change significantly by the end of the century, pointing out the reduction of its areas. In 2007 cosmic photo shootings recorded that Arctic area has lost 20 per cent of ice in 2 years only. So, what is the future of this area and the entire Earth planet?

Therefore, certain consequences can be forecasted to date notwithstanding their long-term effect.

First of all, ice melting will essentially cause the lift of sea level. Scientific predictions assume that it is going to reach a point of 1,2 meters by 2100. Scientists registered that annual sea level growth is more than 3 mm (since 1993). Secondly, the first victims of sea level growth are likely to be island states of equatorial latitudes, which have already experienced massive flooding and regular tsunami. Yes, all of these are the aftermaths of great meltdown in Arctic and Antarctic. Lots of small islands are on the verge of extinction in contrast to those ones, which are gone for good to date. Particularly, two small islands in the Pacific Ocean have been buried under the water. Another example is Samoa archipelago, where thousands of residents moved inland, as far as 50 meters of the seacoast were washed out by the ocean.

The second major consequence is a threat to life. Both animals and humans might experience the negative answer of the nature to aggressive industrial growth of the world industry. Flooding of coastal areas preconditioned a death of lots of representatives of animal world and vegetation. The structure of the seacoast has been ruined by hurricanes, as well as species distributed. The Arctic meltdown threatens the animal habitat of the area. Groups of walrus escape to the iceberg coasts because of the territory reductions, narwhal are on the verge of extinction, polar bears are likely to be gone for good in 20 years.

So, the Arctic Meltdown is going to cause many crucial transformations within Earth environment. Despite its long-term perspective, scientists already work out the main outcomes, which might occur; in particular, this issue is of big concern of the whole world society.