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Arctic sea ice volume plunges over a third in less than 10 years
2013-02-18 21:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Few places are changing as rapidly as the Arctic due to global warming. Last year, scientists were stunned when the Arctic's seasonal ice extent fell to record low that was 18 percent below the previous one set in 2007. But new research in Geophysical Research Letters finds that the volume of ice is melting away just as quickly: satellite and ocean-based measurement have found that Arctic sea ice has fallen by 36 percent in Autumn since 2003. In winter, the ice volume has dropped 9 percent. "It's...
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