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Arctic Ice Thins Dramatically, NASA Satellite Images Show.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 2003

By Mike Toner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Oct. 24--The ice that covers the Arctic Ocean is shrinking so swiftly that the entire ocean could someday be ice-free during the summer months --- a transformation that could alter everything from world shipping routes to the fate of winter wheat crops in Kansas.

Although the Arctic ice pack varies with the seasons, climate researchers reported Thursday that the area covered by perennial ice --- that which remains from year to year --- reached a record low level last year and may again this year.

NASA satellite images show that Arctic ice has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 10 percent a decade. During the past 35 years, it also has thinned by more...

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