Arctic: The ice cap around the North Pole shrank to its sixth-lowest size on record on Sept.17. reaching a minimum coverage of 1.94 million square miles. That’s down slightly from last September, but nearly as low as the record-setting minimum of 1.32 million square miles in 2012. While the famed North-West passage in Arctic Canada failed to become ice free this summer, the Northern Sea route opened with little ice along the shipping route off Siberia
Earthweek | Steve Newman
The Plain Dealer February 22, 2014
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