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Baffin Island ice caps shrink by 50 percent since 1950s, says CU-Boulder study
01-28-2008 · EurekAlert!A new University of Colorado at Boulder study has shown that ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by more than 50 percent in the last half century as a result of warming, and are expected to disappear by the middle of the century.
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