Last year was one of the worst years on record for Greenland's ice sheet, which shrank by hundreds of billions of tonnes in a high-pressure environment brought on by unusually clear skies and warmer temperatures.
Denmark's new leader, Mette Frederiksen, 41, has made addressing climate change a top priority since her election in June, when she became the country's youngest prime minister.
Chemical imbalances in the Arabian Gulf caused by rapid warming and excessive use of fertiliser in agriculture could be expanding the world's largest marine dead zone towards the UAE's shores.
