Norway's Arctic archipelago, Svalbard, recorded its highest temperature in 40 years - which is almost equal to the all-time record - the country's meteorological institute reported.
Scientific studies have proven that global warming in the Arctic is happening twice as fast as the rest of the planet.
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For two days in a row, the archipelago recorded 21.2 degrees Celsius of heat in the afternoon, which is just under the 21.3 degrees recorded in 1979, meteorologist Kristen Gislefoss told AFP.
The island group is inhabited by Spitzbergen and is the only isle in the northern Norway archipelago which has people living there. It sits 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) from the North Pole.
The relative heatwave expected to last until Monday, is a huge spike in the normal temperature expected in July - the hottest month in the Arctic.
The Svalbard islands usually have a temperature of 5-8 degrees Celsius at this time of year.
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Since January, the region has witnessed temperature five degrees above normal and it peaked at 38 degrees in Siberia in mid-July.?
According to a recent report The Svalbard climate in 2100, the average temperatures for the archipelago, between 2070 and 2100, will rise by 7-10 degrees, due to the levels of greenhouse gas emissions.
Changes are already visible. From 1971 to 2017 between three and five degrees of warming has been observed, with the biggest rises in the winter.
Svalbard, known for its polar bear population, houses both a coal mine - digging out the most global warming of all energy sources - and a doomsday seed vault, which has since 2008, collected stocks of the world's agricultural bounty in case of global catastrophe.
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The vault required 20 million euros ($23.3 million) worth of work after the infiltration of water due to thawing permafrost in 2016.