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The pools of melting ice on top of arctic and antactic ice are a fact though. And the fact that they are darker than surrounding ice compounds the melting even faster. The ice mass over water is drastically dwindling. This last winter has seen a disappearance of life on these surfaces. Seals that reproduce there have not produced a single pup and the polar bears that usually feed on them have been seen swimming aimlessly for hundreds of km until drowning.
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