News Nation: Arctic may become ice-free this year or next for the first time in more than 100,000 years, a leading Cambridge scientist has claimed. According to the predictions of Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University in the UK, we could see "an area of less than one million square kilometres for September of this year'.
Provisional satellite data produced by the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre shows there were just over 11.1 million square kilometres of sea ice on June 1 this year, compared...