In this Friday, April 24, 2020 photo provided by the Alfred Wegener Insitute shows the German Arctic research vessel Polarstern in the ice next to a research camp in the Arctic region. (Manuel Ernst/Alfred-Wegner-Institut via AP)
OSLO, Norway (AFP) The Arctic warmed three times faster than the planet as a whole between 1971 and 2019, a higher rate than previously thought, a scientific report warned Thursday.
Each fraction of a degree makes a big difference: the chances of the ice disappearing entirely in summer before freezing again in winter are 10 times greater if Earth’s temperature rises by 2 degrees Celsius than if it rises by 1.5C, goals laid out by the Paris Accord.
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It’s June 17, 1896, and Norwegian polar explorer Fridtjof Nansen is waking up after another frigid night spent on Franz Josef Land. It’s an uninhabited archipelago north of Siberia in the Arctic Ocean. With his assistant Hjalmar Johansen still snoozing nearby, Nansen starts a fire, tosses some meat into a pot to make soup, and climbs atop a rocky hill to admire the view.
That’s when he hears it the unmistakable sound of dogs barking. He’s shocked, because their last sled dog died months ago.
The two explorers haven’t laid eyes on another human since they abandoned their ice-bound ship, the