Arctic´s record warming driving `broad change´ in environment: study
(WorldNews Environment)

Washington: Global warming is heating the Arctic at a record pace, driving broad environmental changes across the planet, including extreme storms in the United States and Europe, a major US scientific report said Tuesday. Persistent heat records have assaulted the fragile Arctic for each of the past five years — a record-long warming streak, said the 2018 Arctic Report Card, released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The mounting heat in the north is upsetting typical weather patterns, a trend that “coincides� with severe winter storms in the eastern United States and an extreme cold snap in Europe in March, it said. “Continued warming of...