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The scientists are stunned at dramatic cracks that are appearing at the north coast of Canada.  Research documents how fissures are threatening the breakup of the oldest ice in the arctic.
The Ayles Ice Island, an iceberg the size of Manhattan has split into two, each vast chunk of ice now 400 miles [...]

Why does Google earth no longer show ice at arctic ocean. The earth as we know it has always had a sheet of ice that expands and contracts over the year, but it has always been there. This pictures below are the satellite view of sea ice extent at their smallest range at [...]