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Arctic sea ice still too thick for regular shipping route through Northwest Passage: York research

TORONTO, September 29, 2015 – Despite climate change, sea ice in the Northwest Passage (NWP) remains too thick and treacherous for it to be a regular commercial Arctic shipping route for many decades, according to new research out of York University. Prior to this research, there was little information about the thickness of sea ice […]