Arctic sea ice minimum tied for second-lowest on record foxnews.com

The amount of Arctic sea ice has reached its annual minimum — a mere 1.6 million square miles.
According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), this year's extent is the second-lowest on record, tied with minimums reached in 2007 and 2016.

Since satellite records have been kept beginning in the late 1970s, NSIDC reports that the 13 smallest sea ice minimums have all occurred in the last 13 years. The lowest amount on record came in 2012, sea ice dropped to 1.37 million square miles.