"Largely unnoticed, a silent drama has been unfolding over the past weeks in the Arctic. The long-term consequences will far outstrip those of the international debt crisis or the demise of the Libyan dictatorship, the news stories now commanding media attention. The drama — more accurately, a tragedy — playing out in the north is the rapid disappearance of the polar ice cap, the Arctic Ocean’s defining feature.
In September, the sea-ice cover on the Arctic Ocean melted all the way back to the record-low level recorded in September 2007. At 4.4 million square kilometers, it was the smallest ice cover since satellite observations began 40 years ago, with 40 percent less ice than in the 1970s and 1980s"............READ MORE
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