CLIMATE - August's Record Sea Ice Melt Was Caused In Part By A Giant Arctic Cyclone

Months before Hurricane Sandy hurled the Atlantic Ocean into houses and cities along the East Coast, another record-breaking cyclone battered North America, helping push this year's Arctic sea ice to a record low, a new study finds. Arctic sea ice has been declining for decades, reaching a record low in September 2007 and hitting that record again in 2012. "The Great Arctic Cyclone of August 2012" arose in Siberia on Aug. 2 and crossed ...

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