Telegraph: Research has already shown the Arctic and Antarctic are melting due to rising temperatures. However the International Polar Year (IPY) survey found that warming in the Antarctic is “much more widespread than was thought,” while Arctic sea ice is diminishing and the melting of Greenland’s ice cover is accelerating. The survey around both poles was the first of its kind for half a century, revisiting areas that have not been seen since the 1950s and mobilising 10,000 scientists …