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the arctic, as wmo keeps saying, is one of the fastest warming parts of the world. it is warming more than twice as fast as the global average. reporter: with the heat came the drought. even the waterlogged vastness of siberia burned. this year, according to nasa, smoke from the siberian wildfires reached the north pole for the first time in recorded history. and every acre that burns releases more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. but that was not the only alarming temperature record announced by the u.n. this one was recorded on the others of the globe. >> last year also, there was a new temperature record in the antarctic continent of 18.3 degrees celsius. that was recorded at an argentinian base called esperanza. reporter: that is not all that is happening in antarctica. scientists monitoring the glacier, the size of great britain, say it is melting so fast that it is dumping 50 billion tons of ice into the ocean each year. the dramatic acceleration of this melting will lead to the glacier's rapid retreat and could cause its eventual collapse. brent: all rig

this is the wmo. >> food insecure and under nourished by 45.6%.dictions we have, the decade of production for the period of 2020-2024, indicating an increase in terms of warming with increased arming, we expect reduction in terms of food production. we also expect impacts in terms of disease and pests. important, we will have impacts generated by flooding on the infrastructure system for agriculture production, which is the main source of livelihoods and food security in the continent. so all indicates the continuing warming probably worsen the current 45 or 6% increase in terms of undernourished people we've seen from 20, 2012. and because average greenhouse gas is just a fraction of those living in countries like the u.s., australia, and the u.k. african development bank estimates africa bears almost half the costs of adapting to the consequences of the climate crisis. meanwhile, a pledge from richer nations to grant developing countries $100 billion in financing per year to cope to with the climate crisis has been unfulfilled. this all comes as