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Arctic ice melting in 2016 heat: NASA
Record-breaking temperatures in the first half of 2016 have primed the Arctic for another summer of low sea ice cover, a NASA scientist says.
Published : 20 August 2016, 07:06 AM
Updated : 20 August 2016, 07:12 AM
The Arctic is one of the most visible signs of a changing planet - warming twice as fast as anywhere else in the world.
Over the past three decades, the amount of sea ice there has dramatically declined.
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