sea ice
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Want to know what climate change feels like? Ask an Alaskan.
Vanished sea ice. Skies choked with wildfire smoke. Animals appearing where they shouldn’t. Climate change is visible everywhere in Alaska.
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Will I be able to tell when we’ve reached a climate tipping point?
This question is inherently, existentially, and unavoidably upsetting. But it still needs an answer.
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It’s a steamy 80 degrees in New England. In February. That’s bad.
The return of “Februne.”
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The ice under polar bears’ paws is not only melting, but also moving
As sea ice gets thinner, it moves faster — which means polar bears have to pick up the pace, too.
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Things are complicated between Arctic sea ice and air pollution
Some emissions are warming it up. Others are cooling it down.
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Sorry, polar bears. It’s worse than we thought
A new study looked at polar bears' prospects as the world warms. The verdict? Bad, or very bad.
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Underwater, melting glaciers are louder than a symphony of chainsaws
It turns out that bubbles in melting glaciers are causing quite a ruckus.
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35,000 walruses start their own climate march
Shrinking sea ice forces walruses to flop ashore en masse.
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Look at this picture of the Arctic now, because it’s probably your last chance
This image (click to embiggen, click here to embiggen A LOT) was stitched together from photos taken by NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite. It shows the Arctic in all its glory — or anyway, all its remaining glory. The ice cover there has been decreasing fast enough that within 20 years, a photo of the Arctic […]