COPENHAGEN: Greenland’s ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA) said in a report Wednesday. The Arctic region is on the frontline of global warming, heating up four times faster than the rest of the planet since 1979, according to a 2022 study in scientific journal Nature. “The melting rate of the Greenland ice sheet by, from a preliminary analysis, a factor of 17...

L’Islande est aussi touchée par cette vague record autour de 20 °C, une température particulièrement élevée pour la région de l’Arctique.

COPENHAGEN: Greenland’s ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland, the scientific network World Weather Attribution (WWA)…