A cool, stormy Arctic summer should have been good news for sea ice. Instead, the ice still shrank to a minimum of 4.60 million square kilometers (1.78 million square miles) on Sept. 12, tied for 10th-lowest in the satellite record, and the pack was so loose on the Atlantic side that a Swedish icebreaker carrying scientists and tourists sailed to the North Pole, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported in its October analysis.
That result arrived in the same season Antarctica…
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