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Sep 5 2007, AMIT

Arctic is melting at such a rate that in the coming 23 years, it will be left barren. Mounting heat pressure is endangering the most profound ice sheets in the world.

Ice in the Arctic usually begins to freeze over the winter. But, this summer...

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The Perito Moreno glacier is seen in Santa Cruz province in Argentina’s Patagonia region, Monday, July 7, 2008. The glacier began on Friday an unusual process of rupture for this time of the year.