Brandt, 49, has been a hunter since age 14, and said roughly 20 years ago, when winter sea ice became too thin to support dogsleds, seal hunting ceased to be a sustainable way of life here.

49岁的布兰德从14岁就开始打猎，他说，大约20年前，当冬天海上的冰变得太薄，不再能够承受狗拉雪橇以后，猎海豹不再是这里一种持续的生活方式。

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The Arctic has lost over 40% of its year-round ice since 1985, 14% in 2004-05 alone.

自1985年以来，北冰洋那些终年不化的冰已经丧失了超过40%，仅在2004 - 2005年，就丧失了14%。

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Ice cream has 16 kinds and instant noodles 14.

冰淇淋含有16种而速食面含有14种。

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Ryan McCaig also admitted the robbery of a woman working at an ice cream kiosk in Crosby on 14 July.

BBC: Marcos Ringle attack in Crosby: McCaig brothers jailed

Earlier this month NSICD scientists reported that winter sea ice cover in the Arctic was just 14.7 million square kilometers (5.7m square miles) -- slightly better than the all-time low 14.5m square kilometers (5.6m square miles) in 2006 -- but well short of the 15.7m average for 1979-2000.

CNN: Arctic melt worse than predictions

Between 2004 and 2005, 14 percent of the Arctic Ocean's perennial ice disappeared - some 720, 000 square kilometers (447, 000 square miles) -- a depletion Lynas calls "instantaneous" in geological terms.

CNN: Six degrees of devastation