https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/f11f8ce4-774b-4a48-81b8-15cc189945f0 Improve your English vocabulary and listening in just six minutes! This year's global heating and melting polar ice has many scientists asking whether it’s now too late to stop global warming. Have we have reached the point of no return? Neil and Georgina talk about the effects of climate change on the Arctic, and teach you vocabulary along the way. This week's question: How many gigatonnes of ice are now melting into the ocean every year? a) 450 gigatonnes b) 500 gigatonnes c) 550 gigatonnes Watch the video to find out the answer. Vocabulary ice sheet thick layer of ice covering a large area of land for a long period of time glacier very large, slow-moving mass of ice in balance having different parts or elements arranged in the correct proportions tipping point time at which a change or an effect cannot be stopped rate speed at which something happens or changes throw your hands up (idiom) show frustration and despair when a situation becomes so bad that you give up or submit [Cover: Getty Images] To download the audio and a transcript, go to: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english/ep-201105 More 6 Minute English episodes: Sport against poverty https://youtu.be/atPNphv-NEI Food made in space https://youtu.be/_q8geBY3vPA The medicine of coronavirus https://youtu.be/gu_GfdJpdsA Is this the era of distrust? https://youtu.be/AhoslePC6yI Grandma therapy in Zimbabwe https://youtu.be/LXw2xdWqkS0 Do chimps have the same emotions as us? https://youtu.be/x4HNOP6Ko6Y Could humans live in underwater cities? https://youtu.be/GUGtU7Ii1yk #learnenglish #climatechange #greenland #icesheet #arctic #globalwarming #iceberg Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:02:16 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.pavel-english.ru https://video.pavel-english.ru/client/assets/images/icons/icon-96x96.png https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/f11f8ce4-774b-4a48-81b8-15cc189945f0 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.pavel-english.ru/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.