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Last June 2018, the North of Siberia experimented an unprecedented heat wave with record temperatures. On September 2017, the front of the Pine Island glacier in the Antarctic Peninsula cracked creating one of the biggest icebergs ever recorded. The extension of the surface of the sea ice in the Arctic region has reached minimum records during the summer in the last years. All these facts showed that there is a region of our planet that is specially threatened by the silent white menace of the global warming: the polar regions. The global mean temperature has risen around 1.1 ºC since 1990, however in the Arctic and in the Antarctic Peninsula it has risen more than twice.Last June 2018, the North of Siberia experimented an unprecedented heat wave with record temperatures. On September 2017, the front of the Pine Island glacier in the Antarctic Peninsula cracked creating one of the biggest icebergs ever recorded. The extension of the surface of the sea ice in the Arctic region has reached minimum records during the summer in the last years. All these facts showed that there is a region of our planet that is specially threatened by the silent white menace of the global warming: the polar regions. The global mean temperature has risen around 1.1 ºC since 1990, however in the Arctic and in the Antarctic Peninsula it has risen more than twice.