Huge glacier melt and fast rising seas amid hottest eight years on record – WMO

Kangiata Nunata Sermia, a glacier undergoing submarine melting in southwest Greenland. Picture: PA Photo

The past eight years are on track to be the hottest on record – bringing ever more dramatic and deadly impacts of climate change, the UN has said.

Sea level rise is accelerating, the melting of Europe’s Alpine glaciers shattered records and devastating floods, drought and heatwaves hit in 2022, the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) said.