The new study from the Norwegian Polar Institute shows that ice layers around the Hopen Island have been reduced radically since measurements started in the mid-1960s. Since year 2000, there has not been registered ice layers thicker than 1 meter at Hopen, a press release from the institute reads.
-The reduced ice thickness by Hopen is in coherence with the reduced ice layers in the Barents Sea and all over the Arctic, researcher Sebastian Gerland says.
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