Bering Sea winter ice shrank to its lowest level in 5,500 years in 2018
Five millennia of climate shifts impacting the ice is recorded in peat from an Arctic island
The Bering Sea (shown) may be ice-free year-round by the end of the century. A new study finds that increasing climate-altering CO2 can lead to reduced ice in the winter as well as the summer.
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