Siberian Heat Wave Shrinks Arctic Sea Ice To Second-Lowest Level Ever Recorded
(World News Russia)

The Arctic Ocean`s floating ice cover shrank this year to its second-lowest extent since modern recording began nearly four decades ago, driven in part by the impact of a Siberian heat wave. The Arctic sea ice cover shriveled to 3.74 million square kilometers by September 15, according to satellite data by U.S. space agency NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder released on September 21. “It`s been a crazy year up north, with...