Associated Press: In a critical climate indicator showing an ever warming world, the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an all-time low this year, obliterating old records. The ice cap at the North Pole measured 3.42 million square kilometres on Sunday. That's 18 per cent smaller than the previous record of 4.17 million square kilometres set in 2007, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. Records go back to 1979 based on satellite tracking. "On top of that, we're smashing...
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