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August 22, 2018

For First Time in History, Strongest Arctic Ice Begins to Break Up
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In climate change news, the strongest ice in the Arctic has begun to
break up for the first time in recorded history. Earlier this year,
temperatures soared in the Arctic to 45 degrees above normal. Meanwhile,
much of the western United States has been blanketed in thick, hazardous
smoke from the raging, climate change-driven wildfires.


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