The ‘Climate change’ section explores the global nature of the world’s climate system and how what happens in one place will have an effect on another place thousands of miles away. Climate change in the Arctic is happening more quickly than in other parts of the world.
NOAA Arctic Report Card 2024
The Arctic Report Card from NOAA has identified that annual surface temperatures in 2024 ranked the second warmest since 1900. Watch the video for the full summary.
Arctic Climate Challenge
Climate change could have both positive and negative effects for the Arctic. Take the challenge and find out more.
Shrinking sea ice
The thickness and area of summer ice is shrinking at an unprecedented rate.
Sensitive Arctic
In Alaska and Western Canada, winter temperatures have already increased by 3-4° centigrade in the last 50 years.
Losing the ice
Sea ice extent has decreased by 13% per decade since the 1990s.
The front line of climate change
Small lakes appearing on the ice dome of Greenland in the area between Narsarsuaq and Frederikshab. This is a consequence of the phenomenon of global warming and the catastrophic thawing of ice.
What happens next?
People, animals and plants that live in the Arctic environment will have to adapt to these changes, in some cases quickly!
Greenland and global warming
Change comes with both challenges and potential opportunities.