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$2.6 Trillion Worth of Disasters

By Zubin JelvehDec 31st 2009 – 5:33PM
AP

AP

(Dec. 31) – If you've sipped at all from the certifiable torrent of retrospectives that have appeared in the past few weeks, you've been reminded why the 2000s were a period we'd all surely like to forget. This was a decade the started with a recession, terrorist attacks and two wars, then ended with a more severe...

Background on Arctic ice

Polar ice packs are large areas of pack ice formed from seawater in the Earth's polar regions, known as polar ice caps: the Arctic ice pack (or Arctic ice cap) of the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic ice pack of the Southern Ocean, fringing the Antarctic ice sheet.

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