Antarctica temperature crosses 20 degrees Celsius for first time ever

For the first time on record, the Antarctic has registered a temperature of more than 20 degrees Celcius (68F), which has prompted the fears of climate instability in the world’s greatest repository of ice. Scientists, who collect the data from remote monitoring stations every three days, described the new record as “incredible and abnormal”. Though these records need to be confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, but the trends seem to be consistent on the peninsula and nearby islands, which have warmed by almost 3 degrees Celcius since the pre-industrial era. 

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