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UN agency laments summer's 'deep wound' to Earth's ice cover

| September 1, 2020 5:03 AM

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations weather agency says this summer will go down for leaving a “deep wound” in the cryosphere -- the planet’s frozen parts -- amid a heat wave in the Arctic, shrinking sea ice and the collapse of a leading Canadian ice shelf.

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