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October 13, 2020

"The Ice Is Dying": Researchers Warn Climate Crisis Is Irrevocably Changing Arctic Landscape
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A German research team has just completed the largest Arctic expedition
in history. The team's ship became deliberately frozen last October,
drifting thousands of miles north and west, to study how the Arctic is
being impacted by the climate crisis and increasing temperatures. This
is one of the expedition's leaders, Markus Rex, who offered a stark
warning about the future of the planet.

Markus Rex: "We found broad expanses of open water in an area where
there should normally be thick ice, parts of it multiyear ice. And even
at the pole, the ice is completely melted and full of holes. It was very
evident. You could see it all around. You didn't need measuring
instruments. The ice is dying."



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