The National Snow and Ice Data Centre has confirmed its predictions that the Arctic ice cap would melt to its lowest ever recorded level, announcing that the sea ice is continuing to rapidly melt well beyond the record-breaking low of 2007.
On 26 August 2012 the cap surface area fell to 4.1 million square kilometres, 70,000 square kilometers below a five-day running average of 4.17 million square kilometres in the Arctic summer of 2007. The region typically reaches its seasonal low in mid to late September, suggesting the record could soon be an even more dramatic one.
By: Liat Clark,
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