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ENVIRONMENT: Shrinking ice cap opens up North West Passage

The Arctic ice cap is shrinking so fast that a route's been opened up between Europe and Asia for the first time. The European space agency said its images showed the rate of overall ice loss had risen sharply to its highest rate since satellite records began thirty years ago. That's opened up the historically impassable Northwest passage across Canada

ITN Source | September 15, 2007Watch more videos from ITN Source

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