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Arctic Ice Vanishing 'Like Mad'

Researchers find Baffin ice cap shrunk by half in last 50 years

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 30, 2008 9:30 AM CST

(Newser) – Ice caps on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic are "receding like mad" and could be gone completely within 50 years, LiveScience reports. The fields of ice have shrunk by half in the last 50 years and haven't been so small for at least...   Read full story »

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