July is on track to be the hottest month on Earth in recorded history. The record-breaking heat is taking a particularly hard toll on the world’s Arctic region. As Dawna Friesen explains, global warming is also being blamed for unprecedented wildfires throughout the world, increasingly high emissions, and the starvation deaths of reindeers.
- UN assessment underway after Antarctica logs highest temperature on record
- 2019 was second-hottest year on record, data shows
- Reindeer starving as climate change affects Swedish arctic, covering it in ice