Sluggish Start for Arctic Sea Ice Freeze-Up
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Sluggish Start for Arctic Sea Ice Freeze-Up
Early ice retreat amid warm Arctic air temperatures set the stage for the slow refreeze in 2020.
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Melting ice, falling snow: Sea ice declines enhance snowfall over West Antarctica
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Something weird is going on': search for answers as Antarctic sea ice stays at historic lows, Antarctica
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Antarctica sea ice hits record low 'by a wide margin
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Sea Ice - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Arctic ice: 5 reasons the region's warm winter should alarm you - Vox
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Arctic Sea Ice Is Getting Younger. Here Is Why That Is a Problem.
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Sluggish Start for Arctic Sea Ice Freeze-Up
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Antarctica is missing a chunk of sea ice bigger than Greenland – what's going on?
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Why is an ocean current in the Arctic critical to world weather losing steam?
Melting Ice Could Weaken Atlantic Ocean Currents, Changing Climate