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the Arctic loses nearly 21,000 square miles of ice each year, and the experts who prepared the 2014 National Climate Assessment ...
point, a mother polar bear appeared near camp with two cubs, which made the act of heading off alone to relieve oneself—already ...
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The attack submarine U.S.S. Connecticut pro- trudes through an ice floe in the Beaufort Sea. For decades the U.S. and Russian na ...
the Arctic, an airfield, on borrowed ground in northern Greenland. Russia has stationed new troops in the north, increased subma ...
Writer Neil Shea profiled Tokyo in the April issue. Photographer Louie Palu received a Guggenheim Fellowship to photograph the m ...
ARCTIC PERMAFROST IS THAWING MUCH FASTER THAN EXPECTED, RESHAPING THE LAND AND RELEASING CARBON GASES THAT COULD SPEED UP CLIMAT ...
BY CRAIG WELCH PHOTOGRAPHS BY KATIE ORLINSKY 75 ...
Methane, a potent greenhouse gas, is bubbling from thaw- ing ground under lakes across the Arctic. In winter, surface ice traps ...
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Sergey Zimov, right, and his son, Nikita, run an Arctic research sta- tion in Cherskiy, Russia, along the Kolyma River. The elde ...
scientists once predicted. Geologically speaking, it’s thawing almost overnight. As soils like the ones at Duvanny Yar soften an ...
herbs and willows. As these plants and animals died, the cold slowed their decomposition. Over time, windblown silt buried them ...
schools, cracked pipelines, and collapsed ice cellars where Arctic hunters store walrus meat and bowhead whale blubber. Warm sum ...
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The valley of the Alatna River, which flows south out of Alaska’s Brooks Range, has become a cor- ridor for wildlife moving nort ...
870 gigatons of carbon in atmosphere 1,600 gigatons in permafrost Active layer Permafrost A LANDSCAPE REVOLUTION As ice buried w ...
THAW SLUMPS When permafrost thaws near a hillside or a stream or river, it can trigger a landslide. These so-called thaw slumps ...
The ancient soils of Arctic permafrost, seen here in the wall of the Batagaika crater, hold the organic remains of leaves, grass ...
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