National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that surface temperature in the Arctic today is 3,5 degrees higher than the temperature measured in 1900. This increase caused a critical level of the sea ice to melt.

NOAA emphasized that warming in the Arctic is twice as faster as the rest of the world, and the recent increase in temperature is unprecedented. For the first time in history, temperatures rose 3 years in a row and ice formation that normally takes place in autumn has not yet happened.

NOAA stated that the area of the sea ice has been the lowest since 1979, and has decreased 28 percent in comparison to 1981.