Arctic Sea Ice

Sea ice breaks apart as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica traverses the Northwest Passage through the Victoria Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago Friday, July 21, 2017. Since the first orbital images were taken in 1979, Arctic sea ice coverage has dropped by an average of about 34,000 square miles each year _ almost the surface area of Maine or the country of Serbia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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