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TUKTOYAKTUK, Northwest Territories -- The Arctic Ocean has given up tens of thousands more square miles of ice in a relentless summer of melt, with scientists watching through satellite eyes for a possible record low polar ice cap.
From the barren Arctic shore of this village in Canada's far northwest, 1,500 miles north of Seattle, veteran observer Eddie Gruben has seen the summer ice retreating more each decade as the world has warmed. By this weekend the ice edge lay some 80 miles at sea.See the full content of this document
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Arctic Ice Melting Faster Than Expected
"Forty years ago, it was 40 miles out," said Gruben, 89, patriarch of a local contracting business.
Global average temperatures rose 1 degree Fahrenheit in the past century, but Arctic tem...See the full content of this document
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