Guardian: An unusually high proportion of thinner ‘first year’ ice in the Arctic raises the prospect of an acceleration in the loss of ice during the warmer summer months Link to this video The total volume of sea ice in the Arctic is likely to have reached a record low last summer, despite previous reports that the area of ice recovered slightly from the previous year’s dramatic decline, leading experts have warned. The latest alarm about the fate of the Arctic sea ice, due to an …