Giving Compass' Take:

• There are three new islands in the thawing Arctic, each left behind by melting glaciers. As Arctic scientist look towards the future, they see no signs of this trend slowing down, Mashable reports.

• What will happen to the Arctic wildlife as these climate changes continue? And what can those in the environmental sector do to address this continuing global threat?

• Here's more on how we can safeguard the Arctic.

As warming masses of ice retreat away from the rugged outcroppings at the edge of the Devon Ice Cap in the Canadian Arctic, glaciologist Mauri Pelto recently spotted on satellite images the "release," or freeing, of these three new islands, and posted the images online. This geographic transformation is a continuation of the accelerating change now unfolding in the Arctic, where things are warming over twice as fast as the rest of the planet — and in some places even faster.

"The far north Canadian Arctic is one of the most quickly warming places in the world," Luke Copland, who researches glaciers and ice caps at the University of Ottawa, said in an interview.

This warming air is simply accelerating the melting of the massive Devon Ice Cap, said Copland. The three new islands may not be giants, but they certainly aren't small. These isles are around half a kilometer across, Pelto, the director of the North Cascades Glacier Climate Project at Nichols College, said in an interview.

Read the full article about new Arctic islands and glacier retreat by Mark Kaufman at Mashable.