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The Greenland ice piece can experience intense reducing even when conditions don't hit history levels, according to a new analysis by D...

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British scientists say polar Times Atlas of the World is wrong to say that I had to redraw the map of Greenland due to climate change.

Advertisement for the latest edition of the Atlas, which was launched last week, said the warming was 15% above the Greenland ice-covered earth "green and free of ice."

But scientists at the Scott Polar Research Institute say the figures are false, so the ice has not diminished.

The blanket of sea ice that floats on the Arctic Ocean appears to have reached its lowest extent for 2011, the second lowest recorded since satellites began measuring it in 1979, according to the University of Colorado Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.

The Arctic sea ice extent fell to 1.67 million square miles, or 4.33 million square kilometers on Sept. 9, 2011. This year's minimum of 1.67 million square miles is more than 1 million square miles below the 1979-2000 monthly average extent for September -- an area larger than Texas and California combined.

Ice melting in the Arctic this year is very fast, approaching record levels that occurred in 2007. Thus the results of observations Roshydromet, environmental agencies from Russia.

The amount of ice-covered area has been reduced by 50 percent from the average. The amount of ice is currently about 2 million square kilometers, below the average from 1979 to 2000.

Ice extent measured even far below the vast sea of Russia in the Arctic, such as the Kara Sea (56 percent) and Laptev Sea (40 percent), the Chukchi Sea (35 percent), and the East Siberian Sea (14 percent). Ice is said to only cover an area approximately 6.8 billion square kilometers.