NASA Says Artic Sea Ice Shrinks to Smallest Size Ever Observed

“The Arctic Ocean’s ice cover has shrunk to the smallest size ever observed in the three decades NASA has monitored it, according to the U.S. agency.

The area of ocean covered by ice shrank to 1.58 million square miles (4.1 million square kilometers), or 27,000 square mile less than the 2007 previous record, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, said today in a statement.”