Times of India: Climate change is shifting the landscape in the Arctic more rapidly than anywhere else in the world, US defence secretary Chuck Hagel has said.
"Climate change is shifting the landscape in the Arctic more rapidly than anywhere else in the world," Hagel said in his address at Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, Canada yesterday.
"While the Arctic temperature rise is relatively small in absolute terms, its effect are significant, transforming what is a frozen desert into an evolving,...