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Shrinking Sea Ice Hints at Global Warming

Photo source: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/

SeaGrant SeaGrant SentinelSentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News May 14, 1991Vol. 9, no.5

Source: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov

Photo source: Alaska Digital Archive

Polar Ice Cap Thinning – Global Warming to Blame?

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SeaGrant Sentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News June 12, 1991Vol. 9, no.6

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Photo source: Alaska Digital Library

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SeaGrant SeaGrant SentinelSentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News November 14, 1999

Vol. 15, no.6

Arctic sea ice thins

Photo source: Alaska Digital Library

Polar Sea Ice Could be Gone by End of the Century

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SeaGrant SeaGrant SentinelSentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News March 27, 2004

Vol. 20, no.3

Photo source: Alaska Digital Archive

Polar bears’ habitat endangered by thinning ice

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SeaGrant SeaGrant SentinelSentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News July 17, 2005

Vol. 21, no.7

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Photo source: Alaska Digital Archive

Meltdown: Arctic life may be threatened

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SeaGrant SeaGrant SentinelSentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News August 11, 2006

Vol. 22, no.8

Photo source: Alaska Digital Archive

Arctic Sea Ice Melt Accelerating

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SeaGrant SeaGrant SentinelSentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News October 4, 2006

Vol. 22, no.10

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SeaGrant SeaGrant SentinelSentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News July 10, 2005

Vol. 21, no.7

Record Low for June Arctic Sea Ice

Photo source: Alaska Digital Archive

Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years

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SeaGrant SeaGrant SentinelSentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News December 12, 2007

Vol. 16, no.5

Photo source: http://www.photolib.noaa.gov

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SeaGrant SeaGrant SentinelSentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News March 19, 2008

Vol. 23, no.3

Arctic Sea Ice Still At Risk Despite

Cold Winter, NASA Says

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Arctic ice shrinks to new record low!

Photo source:NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, via Reuters

SeaGrant SeaGrant SentinelSentinel

Alaska Seas and Rivers News October 3, 2008

Vol. 25, no.10

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What do we know about sea ice

and how it is changing?