The temperatures in Arctic and Antarctic regions are rising faster than previously thought - the international scientists revealed on Wednesday. 

The scientists stated that the rising temperature in the regions is warming the regions faster, consequently ice is melting faster and the world sea levels are rising, and the phenomenon is causing drastic global climate change.

According to the scientists, the new findings have been revealed by a wide-ranging study, which was going on in the two regions over the past two years, under the United Nations-backed program dubbed the International Polar Year (IPY).

In the study, the researchers wrote, "Snow and ice are declining in both polar regions, affecting human livelihoods as well as local plant and animal life in the Arctic as well as global atmospheric circulation and sea-level."

"It now appears certain that both the Greenland and the Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass and thus raising sea level, and that the rate of ice loss from Greenland is growing," the researchers said in the study.

The researchers concluded, "New data also confirm that warming in the Antarctic is much more widespread than it was thought prior to IPY."