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"The world from our childhood is no longer here": Report details drastic changes as Arctic warms

Tue, 12/10/2019
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The Arctic is increasingly at risk as temperatures warm and sea ice melts away, NOAA warns in its annual report card on the state of this crucial ecosystem. At the end of a very dense, very lengthy report loaded with scores of scientific stats, the seemingly abstract science of climate change collides with the sobering humanity of its impacts, with the words: "The world from our childhood is no longer here."  Jim Overland is featured.