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Greenland’s melting ice may affect everyone’s future
This National Geographic article discusses how Greenland’s melting ice may affect everyone’s future. NASA scientists are trying to understand how this region is responding to climate change—and how that will influence sea levels around the world.
Greenland’s ice is shrinking, this we’ve known for a while, since the science of global […]
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Report: The EU role is changing as the Arctic melts.
This article discusses how Brussels is seeking to change its role in the melting Arctic. European leaders warn that regional security is at risk and call for the introduction of a new Arctic governance structure. But a stronger EU role in the region might not be welcomed by Arctic states.
Unprecedented […]
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Report: In the Mountains, Climate Change Is Disrupting Everything, from How Water Flows to When Plants Flower
This Inside Climate News article discusses how climate change is affecting mountains. The melting of glaciers and loss of snow has a cascading effect for ecosystems, agriculture and billions of people downstream.
With ominous orange-gray smoke clouds seething on the western horizon, it’s easy to understand how Colorado’s highest city and […]
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Study: How Antarctica is melting from above and below
This National Geographic article discusses how Antarctica is melting from above and below. Upside-down rivers lapping at the bottoms of ice sheets and brilliant blue mini-lakes dotted on top may be speeding up Antarctic melting.
The frozen mountains and icy plains of Antarctica hold enough water to raise global sea […]
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Radical warming in Siberia leaves millions on unstable ground
This Washington Post article discusses radical warming in Siberia, which is leaving millions on unstable ground. The skeletal remains were left behind by mammoth hunters hoping to strike it rich by pulling prehistoric ivory tusks from a vast underground layer of ice and frozen dirt called permafrost. It has […]
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This depressing map of the Arctic lets you track 40 years of melting sea ice
This Fast Company article shows a map of Arctic sea ice melting over hte past 40 years.
If you’re looking for a reason to not get out of bed today, here’s one for you: The Arctic sea ice is melting and it’s melting fast.
As the world reckons with a climate […]
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Study: At the bottom of a glacier in Greenland, climate scientists find troubling signs
This CNN article discusses what scientists have found at the bottom of a glacier in Greenland – trouble.
On one of the hottest days this summer, locals in the tiny village of Kulusuk, Greenland, heard what sounded like an explosion. It turned […]
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Study: A Worrisome Discovery in High Arctic Snowfall – microplastics
This The Atlantic article discusses a study that found thousands of particles of microplastic in Arctic snowfall. There is another study referenced below showing how tap water is also polluted by the same thing..
In just the past decade, scientists have discovered that microplastics—defined as any plastic detritus that’s
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Arctic permafrost is thawing fast. That affects us all.
This National Geographic article discusses what the impact is from the Arctic permafrost thawing fast. That affects us all. As the frozen ground warms much faster than expected, it’s reshaping the landscape—and releasing carbon gases that fuel global warming. It’s not good.
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