Arctic sea ice at second-lowest level on record

LONDON, 22 Sept. - (ANA) - Soaring temperatures in the Arctic have shrunk the ice over the polar ocean to its second-lowest level in four decades, scientists have revealed.

Researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Colorado, US, say this year’s sea ice minimum was 3.74m sq km on 15 September, only the second time the ice has been measured below 4m sq km in 40 years of record keeping.  - (ANA) -

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