The World Meteorological Organisation said that temperatures in the Arctic are rising twice as fast as the global average. 9News
The United Nations weather agency says this summer will go down for leaving a "deep wound" in the cryosphere — the planet's frozen parts — amid a heat wave in the Arctic, shrinking sea ice and the collapse of a leading Canadian ice shelf., provoking what spokeswoman Clare Nullis called a "vicious circle.
She noted a heat wave across the Arctic, record-breaking wildfires in Siberia, nearly record-low sea ice extent, and the collapse of one of the last fully intact Canadian ice shelves.
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