AMAP’s new assessment of the impacts of climate change brings together the latest scientific knowledge about the changing state of each component of the Arctic ‘cryosphere’. It examines how these changes will impact both the Arctic as a whole and people living within the Arctic and elsewhere in the world.
What is the cryosphere?
The term ‘cryo’ comes from the Greek word ‘kryo’, meaning cold. The cryosphere is the frozen water part of the earth’s hydrological system.
The new Arctic
How is life adapting to the 'new Arctic' resulting from climate change?
Permanent permafrost
Permafrost - the frozen soil and bedrock underlying much of the land north of the Arctic Circle.
Boom or bust?
What is likely to be the future for the circumpolar regions?