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摘要

At last, a temporary reprieve for Arctic ice. Thirty-two per cent of ice remaining at the end of the 2009 melt season was two years old. compared with 9 per cent in 2003 and 21 per cent in 2007, according to the US NationalSnow and Ice Data Centre, This gives some hope that the ice will thicken this winter and stabilise for a few years.