Paris (AFP) Sept 22, 2020
US government scientists reported Monday that the Arctic Ocean's floating ice cover has shrivelled to its second lowest extent since satellite records began in 1979. Until this month, only once in the last 42 years has Earth's frozen skull cap covered less than four million square kilometres (1.5 million square miles). The trend line is clear: sea ice extent has diminished 14 percent per
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