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Arctic sea ice has been declining overall since NASA began tracking it by satellite in the 1970s. Miemo Penttinen Alek Petty, NASA and Linette Boisvert, NASA September marks the end of the summer sea ice melt season and the Arctic sea ice minimum, when sea ice over the Northern Hemisphere ocean reaches its lowest extent of the year. For ship …

A boat navigates at night next to large icebergs in eastern Greenland. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) Jørgen Berge, University of Tromsø; Carlos Duarte, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; Dorte Krause-Jensen, Aarhus University; Karen Filbee-Dexter, Université Laval; Kimberly Howland, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), and Philippe Archambault, Université Laval At just over 14 million square kilometres, the Arctic Ocean …