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Forty Percent of Arctic Ice Will Melt by 2050
September 11, 2007 | The Seattle Times

From the article: About 40 percent of the ice that usually blankets the top of the world during the summer will be gone by 2050, according to a new analysis. Earlier studies had predicted it would be nearly a century before that much ice vanished.


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