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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Arctic Ice in "Death Spiral," Is Near Record Low


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Sea ice covering the Arctic Ocean (taken in a satellite image on September 9, 2008) shrank to the second smallest size on record in the summer of 2008 and may disappear in the summer within a couple of decades, new data shows.

Photograph by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio