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Arctic Ice Hits Drastic New Low

Melt ends with ice 293K square miles below 2007 record

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Sep 20, 2012 2:50 AM CDT

(Newser) – Sea ice in the Arctic shrank to a record low on August 27—and kept shrinking for 20 days. The sea has finally begun to refreeze after bottoming out on September 16 at 1.32 million square miles, almost 300,000 square miles less than...   Read full story »

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