Climate change: Total loss of sea ice this year bigger than the entire area of India!
Warming temperatures caused the oceans to warm up as well, which in turn caused above average sea ice loss.
Dec 07, 2016, 14:40 PM ISTNASA shares time-lapse video of melting, shrinking Arctic sea ice over past three decades! - Watch
One of the reasons is that the multiyear ice used to be a pretty consolidated ice pack and now we're seeing relatively smaller chunks of old ice interspersed with younger ice.
Oct 31, 2016, 11:00 AM IST