Showing posts with label Scientists Report "Record Low" Arctic Ice Field. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scientists Report "Record Low" Arctic Ice Field. Show all posts

Friday, August 17, 2007

Scientists Report "Record Low" Arctic Ice Field

Today is a banner day of sorts. Scientists report less sea ice today than any point in the roughly 30-year span that ice has been monitored by satellites.

The National Snow and Ice Reporting Center- in an Associated Press article- reports "2.02 million square miles of ice in the Arctic, falling below the Sept. 21, 2005, record minimum of 2.05 million square miles."
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