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Unprecedented melting of Arctic
ARCTIC ice cover has melted so much that a ship could have sailed unhindered from northern Europe to the North Pole a few weeks ago, according to images released this week by scientists.
Satellite images from August 23 to 25 have shown, for the first time, dramatic openings — larger than the size of the British Isles — in the Arctic’s year-round sea-ice pack north of Svalbard, and extending into the Russian Arctic all the way to the North Pole.
The images were acquired by instruments aboard Envisat and EOS Aqua, two satellites operated by the European Space Agency.
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