arctic
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It’s Way Too Hot in the Arctic Right Now
Svalbard, Norway, is home to the world’s doomsday seed vault because it’s so cold. But the climate crisis is changing that calculation.
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3 Reasons the Arctic Freeze is Unseasonably Late and Why it Matters
With the setting of the sun and the onset of polar darkness, the Arctic Ocean would normally be crusted with sea ice along the Siberian coast by now. But this year, the water is still open. I’ve watched the region’s transformations since the 1980s as an Arctic climate scientist and, since 2008, as director of…
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Greenland Faces a Century of Unprecedented Ice Loss
Hey, we haven’t checked in on the Greenland in a while, let’s see what’s hap… Oh. Oh no.
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Arctic Fires Have Never Released This Much Carbon Dioxide
Sure, we’re all aghast at the Siberian tundra exploding because it’s too damn hot. But there’s a much bigger catastrophe that’s played out this Northern Hemisphere summer in the overheated region. Arctic fires have unleashed an unprecedented amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.