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NASA Finds Russian Runoff Freshening Canadian Arctic
Description: A new study allays concerns that melting Arctic sea ice could be increasing the amount of freshwater in the Arctic enough to have an impact on the global "ocean conveyor belt" that redistributes heat around our planet. The research team detected a previously unknown redistribution of freshwater during the past decade from the Eurasian half of the Arctic Ocean to the Canadian half. Yet despite the redistribution, they found no change in the net amount of freshwater in the Arctic. [Source: NASA]
URL: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/earth20120104.html
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Source: NASA
Publish Date: 1/4/2012
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