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A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep ...

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Since satellites began tracking it, Arctic sea ice's winter peak has shrunk by an area about the size of Pakistan.

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A new study analyzed nearly four decades of deep ocean observations to reveal significant cooling and freshening of deep ...