Warmest temperatures since 1900 have all occurred within the past seven years, according to Noaa’s annual Arctic report card

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The Arctic’s rapid transformation into a less frozen, hotter and biologically altered place has been further exacerbated by a year of wildfires, soaring temperatures and loss of ice, US scientists have reported.

The planet’s northern polar region recorded its second hottest 12-month period to September 2020, with the warmest temperatures since 1900 all now occurring within the past seven years, according to anannual Arctic report cardissued by the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).

TheArcticis heating up at a rate around…