Times of India: A new study using satellite measurements has revealed that thick Arctic sea ice older than nine years, had all but disappeared by 2007, because of global warming. According to a report in Discovery News , this older ice is giving way to thinner ice which is only two or three years old. In fact, the new ice now accounts for 58 percent of the ice cover – up from 35 percent in the mid-1980s. “The thinning is consistent with long-term warming,” said ice researcher James …