In this Friday, April 24, 2020 photo provided by the Alfred Wegener Insitute shows the German Arctic research vessel Polarstern in the ice next to a research camp in the Arctic region. (Manuel Ernst/Alfred-Wegner-Institut via AP)
OSLO, Norway (AFP) The Arctic warmed three times faster than the planet as a whole between 1971 and 2019, a higher rate than previously thought, a scientific report warned Thursday.
Each fraction of a degree makes a big difference: the chances of the ice disappearing entirely in summer before freezing again in winter are 10 times greater if Earth’s temperature rises by 2 degrees Celsius than if it rises by 1.5C, goals laid out by the Paris Accord.