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Guardian: Ice at the North Pole has melted to the lowest level since satellite observations began in 1972, meaning the Arctic is almost certainly the smallest it has been for 8000 years, polar scientists said.
If the trend continues, the Arctic will be largely ice-free in the northern summer 40 years earlier than anticipated in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report.
Daily satellite sea ice maps released by Bremen University physicists show that with a week's further melt......
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Arctic ice melts to lowest level on record
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 13th, 2011
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