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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: North Pole May Be Ice-Free for First Time This Summer


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A ship makes its way through crumbling Arctic sea ice near the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in an undated photo.

Arctic warming has become so dramatic that ice covering the North Pole may melt this summer for the first time in history, according to scientists in the field.

Photograph by Ralph Lee Hopkins/National Geographic/Getty Images.