Sea ice grows in the winter when the Arctic is very cold and dark and then dies back every summer when the region gets pounded by nonstop sunlight. For all of human history, there’s always been some Arctic sea ice that doesn’t melt in the summer. But there’s much less of it now. From the Threshold podcast, Amy Martin reports.
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