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Photo: Dion Tavenier.

Traffic congestion in the North Pole

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A ship making its way between the glaciers and the shores of Greenland. Photo: shutterstock

2014 minimum ice cover in the Arctic Ocean: the sixth from the end

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The minimum ice cover as recorded on September 12, 2013. In the green line - the average of the minimum summer ice cover over 30 years. Photo: Imaging Studio at NASA's Goddard Center/Cindy Starr

The ice melts and therefore the Earth returns less radiation to space, and the result: increased warming

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Caption Arctic Ocean ice cover, September 12, 2013, the day before this year's minimum was announced. The line depicts the average minimum ice cover in 30 years - in yellow. The data was provided by the Japanese Space Agency from the AMSR2 facility on the GCOM-W1 satellite. Photo: NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio/Cindy Starr

The ice cover in the Arctic Ocean did increase by 50% compared to last year, but it is still a sixth of the end in size

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A NOAA expedition examines the melting of the ice in the Arctic Ocean in the summer of 2005. Photo: NOAA

The Arctic Ocean will be free of summer ice during the first half of the 21st century

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Negative record in the ice area in the Arctic Ocean in the summer of 2012. Image: NASA

A new negative record for ice cover in the Arctic Ocean

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gray whale Photo: NOAA. From Wikipedia

naval invasion

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Hot springs of melted ice as photographed by an Internet camera in the North Pole. Photo: NOAA

NOAA report: The Arctic region is warming rapidly

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Currents in the oceans

currents in the ocean

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The Arctic Ocean will be free of ice in 30 years and not 90 as previously thought

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A large glacier has broken off in northern Canada

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The Icesat satellite will try to examine whether the large ice sheets are also melting (update)

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