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Jun 29, 2008

North Pole may have no ice this summer: US expert (AFP)

A picture taken 2007 shows a glacier seen from the Ice Fjord on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. There could briefly be no ice at the North Pole this summer, a US scientist said Friday, an event that would mark a new stage in the melting of the Arctic ice sheets due to global warming.(AFP/File/Pierre-Henry Deshayes)AFP - There could briefly be no ice at the North Pole this summer, a US scientist said Friday, an event that would mark a new stage in the melting of the Arctic ice sheets due to global warming.



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