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Arctic sea ice at record low October levels: Danish researchers – Al Jazeera English
For the month of October, measurements show an 8.2 percent downward trend in ice over the last 10 years.
Sea ice in the Arctic was at record lows for October as unusually warm waters slowed the recovery of the ice, Danish researchers said on Wednesday.
Diminishing sea ice comes as a reminder about how the Arctic is hit particularly hard by global warming.
Since the 1990s, warming has been twice as fast in the Arctic compared to the rest of the world, as a phenomenon dubbed Arctic amplification causes air, ice and water to interact in a reinforcing manner.
The October Arctic sea ice extent is going…
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