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The warming Arctic is now a carbon source, report finds
The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to the 2024 Arctic ...
Quanta Magazine2d
How Does Life Happen When There’s Barely Any Light?
Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever ...
Alaska Dispatch News1d
Earth’s warming is weakening the polar vortex. Here’s what that means for extreme cold.
Research has found that rising temperatures in the Arctic are weakening weather systems that normally trap the cold around ...
Alaska Dispatch News16d
In the Northwest Arctic, damaging late-season storms could also be delaying sea ice formation
And they say that Arctic sea ice is forming later each year. This fall, ice coverage was at a near-historic low. Now, as winter sets in, local observers and researchers believe fall storms may ...
Knowridge3d
Arctic’s ‘Last Ice Area’ could disappear sooner than expected
The Arctic’s “Last Ice Area” (LIA), a critical habitat for animals that depend on sea ice, could vanish within a decade after ...
Polar Bears’ Slick Secret: How Greasy Fur Defies the Arctic Freeze
Polar bears have a built-in defense against ice — greasy fur. A team of scientists has discovered that their fur is coated in ...
Newsweek28d
Arctic Outbreaks To Freeze 250 Million in Coldest January Since 2011
The United States is bracing for its coldest January since 2011 as a massive Arctic ... by severe winter storms. These are expected to bring significant snowfall, hazardous ice conditions, and ...
Chicago Tribune29d
A double dose of nasty winter is about to smack much of the US with snow, ice and biting cold
“There’ll be a lot of whining, but it is winter. … Just because the globe ... The change in temperature and loss of Arctic sea ice make the jet stream — the river of air that moves storm ...
Voice of America28d
Winter storms to hit much of US with snow, ice, biting cold
"There’ll be a lot of whining, but it is winter. ... Just because the globe ... The change in temperature and loss of Arctic sea ice make the jet stream — the river of air that moves storm ...