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Expedition reports ‘dangerously thin’ polar ice sheet

The Arctic ice sheet is thinning continuously and has broken up completely in parts, according to scientists who have been working aboard Polarstern, Germany’s largest research vessel.

Polarstern returned to Bremerhaven on 6 October after a 16-week trip through Arctic waters.

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