
A “new normal” is settling over the Arctic, experts warned yesterday.
Temperatures are rising, ice is melting, snow is disappearing and the region’s delicate ecosystems are rapidly evolving. It’s already not the same place it was a few decades ago, and it won’t be the same place a few more decades into the future.
That’s the stark conclusion of this year’s Arctic Report Card, an annual update on the Arctic climate from NOAA. The report was released yesterday with a virtual press conference hosted at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union… More about New Arctic in the link below…
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/three-signs-a-new-arctic-is-emerging/