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2021 Arctic Report Card reveals a (human) story of cascading disruptions, extreme events and global connections

  • Written by Matthew Druckenmiller, Research Scientist, National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder
2021 Arctic Report Card reveals a (human) story of cascading disruptions, extreme events and global connectionsCommunity members from Utqiagvik, Alaska, look to open water from the edge of shorefast sea ice. Matthew Druckenmiller

The Arctic has long been portrayed as a distant end-of-the-Earth place, disconnected from everyday common experience. But as the planet rapidly warms, what happens in this icy region, where temperatures are rising twice as fast as...

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