It becomes a breakdown process where everything ends up accelerating until it's all gone.

就形成了冰融化过程，所有步骤都加速了，直到所有冰都融化。

Foreman says melting ice endangers polar bears on down to plankton and algae.

福尔曼说，融化冰危及北极熊浮游生物和藻类。

Summer doesn't begin for two more days, but scientists are already sounding the alarm about dangerous ice melts going on right now in Greenland.

夏天还有两天才开始，但科学家们已经在警告人们，格陵兰岛目前正在发生危险冰融化现象。

The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer, the less ice forms in winter, the more melt there is the following summer.

北极冰减少越，无冰水面就会越，从而无冰水面气温在夏天会持续升高，冬天结冰也就会减少，来年夏天融化冰也会增。

At the same time though, ice is also lost through melting.

与此时，冰也会因融化而消失。

Q 9. What measures should be taken to slow down ice melting?

应该采取哪些措施来减缓冰融化？

Likely the water's now frozen, in a kind of permafrost beneath the surface, but maybe there are pressures and temperatures in various areas of Mars that have liquified the ice and created perhaps aqua forms.

可能水现在冻结在地表下面冻土层里，但是火星地方可能会有压力和温度融化冰，可能会产生液体水。

Like, your sister borrows five dollars from you, you ask for it back, she says, " How dare you care about five dollars when the polar ice caps are melting? "

比如，你妹妹向你借了五美金，你要她还钱，她说：“你竟然在乎五块钱，北极冰正在融化耶！”

But if you expect melted ice to reassemble you're expecting entropy to fall.

但如果你期待融化冰重新冻回去，你就是在期待熵减少。

Oh, the ice has melted and now it is just a lot of slush.

哦，冰融化了，现在已经成了雪泥。

If you warm ice it will melt into water.

如果你把冰加热，它会融化成水。

So I'm imagining a place where snow and ices melting in the summer deform tracing and pounds of strings of ice-covered lakes.

所以我想象一个地方, 雪和冰在夏天融化形成很冰封湖泊。

During these months, billions of tons of ice melts and flows into the Atlantic.

短短数月里，数十亿吨冰融化并流入大西洋。

And here's what would happen if all the world's ice melted.

我们来看看，如果全世界冰都融化会发生什么事。

There's more than one way to melt ice.

融化冰方法止一种。

Because they melt more slowly than smaller pieces of ice, icebergs have been known to drift as far north as 35 degrees south of the equator in the Atlantic Ocean.

由于冰山比小块冰融化要慢，因此有冰山在大西洋中向 北飘到了赤道以南35°地方。

But what would actually happen if all the ice melted on Earth?

那如果地球上冰都融化了，到底会发生什么？

As Earth's climate warms, ice in Antarctica and Greenland is melting.

随着地球气候变暖，南极洲和格陵兰岛冰正在融化。

If you melt ice, it becomes a liquid.

如果冰融化，它会变成液体。

Ultimately it's up to us how much ice actually melts.

最终取决于我们能融化少冰。