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On thin ice!

By Nathan Skinner22 December 2009

Source: Catlin Arctic Survey, photo by Martin Hartley

Using pioneering ice-drilling methods, one survey team has made the most ominous predictions yet for the future of the polar caps. Nathan Skinner looks at the perils facing the Arctic – and those who explore it

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