How hot was 2020? It depends who you ask, but it was another one for the record books, agencies say
On Thursday, NASA and NOAA released their look at the 2020 state of the climate. While the numbers may not be exactly the same, the message is: Earth is continuing to warm and it has dire consequences.
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A man is silhouetted against the smoke-filled sky in Britannia Beach, B.C., on Oct. 2. Climate change is expected to increase the fire risk around the globe, though Western Canada had a quiet fire season in 2020.(Jonathan Hayward/The Associated Press)
NASA dan korkutan uyarı: 2020 en sıcak yıl
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For years a bleak island chain sandwiched between the Laptev and East Siberian seas off Russia’s Arctic coast has been viewed as one of the most difficult-to-reach places in the northern hemisphere. If it has been viewed at all.
With winter temperatures habitually plunging to -30oC or lower, it is also one of the more inhospitable tracts on the Northern Sea Route.
Now, as world attention is consumed by developments in the US,
Daily Maverick/Our Burning Planet can confirm that an event with repercussions likely to echo down the generations quietly took place elsewhere, in the heart of this seemingly forgotten corner of Planet Earth.
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