Since 1979, when NASA first began recording satellite ice images, scientists have seen a 13% decline per decade in the minimum summertime extent of sea ice, and in late August, NASA confirmed that the ice was at an all time low.

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Arctic sea ice has been declining at a rate of 13% per decade since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

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Mr. Ice would help them with Chapter 13 filings that enable individuals, with a judge's blessing, to get rid of credit-card, car-payment and other debt.

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The 13-day trek across the frozen polar ice cap was in aid of the charity Walking With The Wounded which supports injured ex-servicemen and women.

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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Alaska and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by an ice jam and flooding during the period of May 8-13, 2011.

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Her skates are chunks of steel as long as 13 feet (the crew changes skate length according to ice conditions), with an almost imperceptible curve along the bottom and a razor-sharp edge so that the skate bites hard into the ice.

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Note that the warming before 1940 is attributable to the global recovery of temperatures from the Little Ice Age, and even the land based records show no warming over the last 13 years.

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They will trek between nine and 13 miles each day in extreme weather conditions and encounter vast crevasses, moving ice-shelves, glaciers and snow storms.

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