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

这就形成了冰的融过程，所有的步骤都加了，直到所有的冰都融。

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

福尔曼说，融的冰危及北极熊的浮游生物和藻类。

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的冰融现象。

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.

北极冰减少的越，无冰水面就会越，从而无冰水面的气温在夏天会持续升高，冬天结的冰也就会减少，来年夏天融的冰也会增。

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

与此同时，冰也会因融而消失。

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？

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的冻土层里，但是火星不同的地方可能会有压力和温度融冰，可能会产生液体的水。

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，北极的冰正在融耶！”

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

但如果你期待融的冰重新冻回去，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, 雪和冰在夏天融形成很冰封的湖泊。

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

短短数月里，数十亿吨的冰融并流入大西洋。

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

我们来看看，如果全世界的冰都融会发生什么事。

There's more than one way to melt ice.

融冰的方法不止一种。

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.

由于冰山比小块的冰融要慢，因此有的冰山在大西洋中向 北飘到了赤道以南35°的地方。

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

那如果地球上的冰都融了，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，南极洲和格陵兰岛的冰正在融。

If you melt ice, it becomes a liquid.

如果冰融，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少冰。