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Published online 17 September 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1115

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Arctic sea ice reaches annual low

Floating pack fails to break record shrinkage of last year.

This summer's Arctic sea-ice cover has apparently bottomed out at 4.52 million square kilometres, which does not crack 2007's record low.

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