For the past 20 years, NOAA’s Arctic Report Card has documented changes in the region, which continues to warm faster than the rest of the globe.
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The 2024 Arctic Report Card also documents increasing sea traffic and thriving ice seals.
‘The time for action is now’: NOAA’s Arctic Report Card paints a dire picture of climate change
This year’s report centered Indigenous perspectives, including contributions by a network of coastal Alaska observers from Kotzebue to Kaktovik.
The 2019 Arctic Report Card shows the impacts of a warming climate. Here are 4 key details.
The Arctic climate is rapidly and dramatically changing, with continued warming of the air, land and sea. That’s according to the 2019 Arctic Report Card from NOAA.
Arctic Report Card: 2018 was the Arctic’s second-warmest year on record
“This was the second-warmest year on record in the Arctic,” said Emily Osborne, a climate scientist with NOAA. “And to add to that, (the) last five years have been the warmest on record.”
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