Sea ice is expected to vanish from the Arctic for increasing periods as a result of global warming, opening up new areas to shipping, according to a major United Nations report on the world’s changing climate.

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which was published on Tuesday, has made headlines for claiming that limiting global warming to 1.5C