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	<title>Icelights: Your Burning Questions About Ice &#38; Climate &#187; Impacts</title>
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		<title>A thawing, rotting Arctic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 12:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samantha Jarrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, researchers are looking at a source of even more carbon emissions from underground: thawing permafrost. A warming Arctic may let significant amounts of dead, organic material currently frozen in the ground to pump... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2013/05/03/a-thawing-rotting-arctic/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are we in a snow drought?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Laura Naranjo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In spite of the massive blizzards that have slammed parts of the northeastern United States, much of the country is experiencing a pronounced lack of snow. And where there is snow, it is less than usual. It follows a very... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2013/03/05/are-we-in-a-snow-drought/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Are icebreakers changing the climate?</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/04/12/are-icebreakers-changing-the-climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In summer months, icebreaking ships head north into the Arctic Ocean, tearing through the sea ice and leaving trails of open water in their wakes. Readers occasionally write in to ask us whether the trails left by these ships contribute... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2012/04/12/are-icebreakers-changing-the-climate/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Greenland’s glaciers and the Arctic climate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last summer, a chunk of ice three times the size of Manhattan broke off Petermann Glacier in Greenland and floated out to sea. The calving left miles of newly open water in the deep Petermann Fjord, which had been capped... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/09/21/greenland%e2%80%99s-glaciers-and-the-arctic-climate/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sea ice and the Arctic coast</title>
		<link>http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/05/23/sea-ice-and-the-arctic-coast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 02:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Leitzell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does it matter if the Arctic sea ice melts? We often hear about the global consequences: waning sea ice is expected to lead to even more climate warming. On a more immediate and local level, the loss of summer... <a href="http://nsidc.org/icelights/2011/05/23/sea-ice-and-the-arctic-coast/">Read more&#160;&#187;</a>]]></description>
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