The Barents area is the fastest warming place on the planet. A new study shows that the warming is happening twice as fast as previously thought.
Ship captains are battling with major volumes of sea-ice across the Russian far north. Temperature data show that the Arctic has almost never before been this hot.
Temperatures across the Arctic have been warmer than usual this fall, with one community in the Northwest Territories recording above-average temperatures for 72 days in a row.
Spring has become warmer in Norway's easternmost city. Now Vardø may lose its Arctic climate.
Climate change has caused a 60-fold increase in active landslides on one Canadian Arctic island.
The average temperature for the entire country was 1.2 degrees above normal in March. It is thus the twelfth month in a row that the temperature in Norway has been above normal.
March becomes the hundredth month in a row with temperatures above normal. "It is unique and shows how fast climate change is happening in the Arctic," says climate scientist Ketil Isaksen at the Meteorological Institute (MET).
The Arctic Sounder - Serving the Northwest Arctic and the North Slope
Snow is melting sooner and coming in later on the North Slope, and that, in turn, is having an affect on other ecological variables.
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