Polar Ice is shrinking at an alarming rate.

The polar ice caps have been shrinking in summer and expanding in winter for millions of years. But in the last three decades, the Arctic sea ice at the end of each summer's melt has been getting steadily smaller. The decline was already alarming but in 2007 when the sea ice melt shattered the previous record by almost 25% researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center wondered is this an anomaly or part of an even more alarming trend?
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