Arctic sea ice reaches the lowest level ever recorded, NASA
says. The sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has melted to the lowest
level ever recorded since it was first measured in 1979, the
NASA space agency says. According to NASA, the sea ice fell to
4.9 million square kilometers as it was observed on Sunday,
which is about 80,000 square kilometers less than the earlier
record charted on September 18, 2007. The sea ice cap normally
grows during the Arctic winter and shrinks as the weather gets
warmer. However over the past three decades, satellites have
recorded a 13% reduction for each decade in the summertime
minimum. The reports have also revealed a decline in the
thickness of the sea ice, causing raising sea levels and the
Arctic Ocean's ice falling far. Professor Peter Wadhams, from
Cambridge University, said a number of scientists had earlier
predicted that the retreat of the sea ice would speed up the
melting process and that by 2015 or 2016 the summer Arctic would
become ice-free. He went on to say that t