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Arctic sea ice decline may trigger climate change cascade, says University of Colorado study

Arctic sea ice that has been dwindling for several decades may have reached a tipping point that could trigger a cascade of climate change reaching into Earth's temperate regions, says a new University of Colorado at Boulder study.

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