FILE PHOTO: People cool off at Nova Icaria beach, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Barcelona, Spain July 30, 2020. REUTERS/Albert Gea
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Last month was the world's third-hottest July on record, new data show -- the latest milestone in a global warming trend that has seen the three hottest Julys within the last five years.
With the heat has come a high level of ice melt in the Arctic, where the extent of sea ice last month hit the lowest level for July since the polar satellite record-keeping began four decades ago, according to the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.
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