The latest studies show polar ice caps are melting at a record rate and there will be no trace of frozen Arctic Ocean during summers within 10 years.

Climate change experts predict a massive disappearance of the ice cover over the North Pole throughout the warmer months.

British polar explorer Pen Hadow believes that with the swift pace of global warming and climate change, irreversible meltdown of Arctic ice is not far.

"In just ten years or so 80-85 percent of the Arctic Ocean will be ice free, and within twenty years we'll have completely lost the summer ice," Hadow said.

Hadow, a veteran polar explorer, surveyed the Arctic ice cap for 73 days during the northern spring and took over 6,000 measurements and observations of the sea ice.

Scientists worry the loss of the ice can change winds and sea currents around the world.

As a result of the meltdown, satellite imaging are expected to show the region blue in pictures, not white.

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