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http://observer.com/2017/05/scientists-release-climate-change-report-artic-region-unraveling/

Arctic sea ice in March 2017 was the lowest it has ever been for the month of March since satellites began recording sea ice extent 38 years ago. NASA notedthat between 1976 and 1996 average sea ice loss in the Arctic was 8,300 square miles per year. Between 1996 and 2013, this number more than doubledto 19,500 square miles per year. This rapid loss of ice in the Arctic contributes not just to rising sea levels, but it reduces theproperties of sea ice thatreflect the sun’s radiation back into spacerather than absorb it like the ocean does, contributing even further...