New Evidence of Accelerated Arctic Warming

As negotiators and world leaders head to Copenhagen for an international Climate Conference, there is new evidence of global warming in the Arctic. Two years ago, so much ice had melted that the Arctic Ocean sea route, known as the Northwest Passage, appeared free of ice on satellite imagery. A recent survey of Arctic ice, conducted by a sponsored team of explorers and scientists, found much more of it is melting during the Arctic summer than was previously thought -- a finding that worries ...
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