<ul><li>Researchers have tracked millions of ice floes over decades to understand why some sea ice melts while others survive.</li><li>The tracking combined satellite data, weather reports, and buoy data into a database covering nearly 20 years of information.</li><li>The study found that an ice floe's fate depended on the route it took, with ice slipping into warmer, more southern regions more likely to melt.</li><li>Region-specific effects were also observed, such as thick sea ice in the East Siberian Sea being more likely to melt in the summer possibly due to warmer currents.</li></ul>

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