Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Masagos Zulkifli, seated with Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna (in red) at last month’s Ministerial on Climate Action.PHOTO BY MASAGOS ZULKIFLI/FACEBOOK
WASHINGTON — The latest indications of the success of human efforts to dial back climate change are not promising.
Arctic ice is melting, but in a large “hot spot”, it is melting at an even faster rate, according to a new study published in the journal Nature.
In the northern Barents Sea, surface warming and loss of sea ice in winter are the most rapid in the Arctic region.

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