<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scant ice over the Arctic Sea this winter could mean a "double whammy" of powerful ice-melt next summer, a top U.S. climate scientist said on Thursday.</p><p>"It's not that the ice keeps melting, it's just not growing very fast," said Mark Serreze, director ...

<div><p>ON BOARD COAST GUARD FLIGHT ABOVE BEAUFORT SEA, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Out in the Arctic Ocean, about 200 miles (322 km ) north of the nearest human settlement, the future of the world's climate is written in the patterns of ice patches on the water's surface.</p><p>Old ...

<div><p>The Arctic sea ice pack thawed to its third smallest size on record during the northern hemisphere summer of 2009, US government scientists said, citing satellite images.</p><p>While the sea ice pack at its lowest 2009 point was slightly larger than both the record-low ice pack measured in ...

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Arctic's sea ice pack thawed to its third-lowest summer level on record, up slightly from the seasonal melt of the past two years but continuing an overall decline symptomatic of climate change, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.</p><p>The range of ocean remaining ...