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Article: 'REMARKABLE' DROP IN ARCTIC SEA ICE RAISES QUESTIONS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 25, 2007
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NASA's Earth Observatory division issued the following press release:
Melting Arctic sea ice has shrunk to a 29-year low, significantly below the minimum set in 2005, according to preliminary figures from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of the University of Colorado at Boulder. NASA scientists, who have been observing the declining Arctic sea ice cover since the earliest measurements in 1979, are working to understand this sudden speed-up of sea ice decline and what it means for the future of Earth's northern polar region.
"The decline in the amount of thick ice that survives the summer melt season this year is quite remarkable," said Josefino C. Comiso, senior scientist at ...