New York Times: Sea ice in the Arctic is again in rapid retreat this summer, putting the region on pace to match the record lows seen in 2007, the head of Russia`s environmental agency said Tuesday, according to a Bloomberg News report. The sea ice figures cited by Aleksandr Frolov, chief of Russia`s federal Hydrometeorological and Environmental Monitoring Service, dovetail with data released this month by the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Both …