Baffin Island Ice Cap (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

Baffin Island Ice Cap

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Ice caps on the northern plateau of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic have shrunk by 50 percent in recent decades as a result of warming temperatures.

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Gifford Miller, University of Colorado at Boulder

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