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Changes in cloud cover might be slowing Arctic warming. For now.

Changes in cloud cover might be slowing Arctic warming. For now.

In recent years, the news about sea-ice in the Arctic has been consistently bad: All 10 of the lowest summer minimum extents on record...
As Arctic warms, interest in geoengineering increases

As Arctic warms, interest in geoengineering increases

Get ready to take part in a planet-wide experiment, which could see science helping to cool the world’s temperature and provide a cheap, short-term...
Alaska’s 2016 was warmest year on record — by a wide margin

Alaska’s 2016 was warmest year on record — by a wide...

Alaska just completed its warmest year on record, a mark set by a staggering margin, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported on Monday. The...
Scientists say the global ocean circulation may be more vulnerable to shutdown than we thought

Scientists say the global ocean circulation may be more vulnerable to...

Intense future climate change could have a far different impact on the world than current models predict, suggests a thought-provoking new study just out...
Report: 2016 was Earth’s hottest year on record by a wide margin, especially in Arctic

Report: 2016 was Earth’s hottest year on record by a wide...

OSLO - Last year was the hottest on record by a wide margin, with temperatures creeping close to a ceiling set by almost 200...
Drones are changing how Canadian scientists monitor Arctic climate change

Drones are changing how Canadian scientists monitor Arctic climate change

Cliffs along the western Canadian Arctic coastline are eroding at an increasingly rapid pace, threatening to impact animals, plants and people in the area. But...
Across the Arctic, lake ice is melting out earlier in the spring

Across the Arctic, lake ice is melting out earlier in the...

A study of 13,000 lakes throughout the Arctic finds that ice-out could occur as much as month earlier each spring in the decades to...
Greenland’s thaw melts a climate-change skeptic

Greenland’s thaw melts a climate-change skeptic

PETERMANN ICE SHELF, Greenland — Half a decade before he took this trip to the farthest reaches of the north, Andreas Muenchow had his...
Super-warm Arctic winter ‘extremely unlikely’ without climate change, scientists say

Super-warm Arctic winter ‘extremely unlikely’ without climate change, scientists say

The Arctic continues to amaze. Hit by a second bout of extremely warm winter temperatures in recent days, the seasonal growth of floating sea ice...
The Arctic is ‘behaving so bizarrely.’ Here’s how some scientists explain that

The Arctic is ‘behaving so bizarrely.’ Here’s how some scientists explain...

Last month, temperatures in the high Arctic spiked dramatically, some 36 degrees Fahrenheit above normal — a move that corresponded with record low levels...
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