Arctic suffers from rapid climate change

A typhoon, smoke from forest fires and increased rainfall is not what one imagines when talking about the Arctic. But these temperature extremes were some of the events included in an annual report on the transformation of the Arctic, previously covered by snow and glaciers.

The study published on the World Meteorological Organization (OMM), is the result of a report from the Arctic for 2022 compiled by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).

The report reveals that from October 2022 to September this year, annual temperatures in Arctic were the 6th warmest since 1900, which followed a decades-long trend in which air temperatures became warmer faster than the global average.

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