North Pole Melt Could Be Biggest In Modern History
(Earthscreen) To date, the biggest melt of North Pole ice occurred in 2007 when the cap shrunk to 1.64 million square miles. I can't even picture an area that size, but here's a statistic I can put into perspective:
From AFP:
The North P
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