The Arctic has once again shown clear symptoms of an ailing planet
Each year, the Arctic region goes through an annual health checkup — and the results are in: From a rapid decline in snow cover to an unprecedented late season melting event to another year of seabird die-offs, the Arctic has once again shown clear symptoms of an ailing planet.
“It’s rare but not unheard of for a hurricane remnant to affect southern Greenland or even Iceland or the UK, but very unusual for it to have this large an impact.” Jason Box, a climate scientist with the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, told CNN it was “reminiscent of August 2021,” when rain fell on the summit of Greenland instead of snow for the first time on record, a phenomenon climate modeling suggests will likely be the norm in the coming decades.
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