The Call Of The Arctic: An Icy Expedition
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Scientists studying one of the fastest-warming regions of the global ocean say changes in this region are so sudden and huge that it will effectively soon be another part of the Atlantic Ocean, rather than a characteristically icy Arctic Ocean .
The Call Of The Arctic: An Icy Expedition
The northern Barents Sea, north of Scandinavia and east of the remote Svalbard archipelago, has warmed extremely rapidly – by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees Celsius) since the year 2000 – and stands out even in the fastest warming part of the globe, the Arctic.
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