The Arctic Is Changing

The Arctic is changing faster than almost anywhere on Earth.

Rapid warming and sea ice melt are impacting Arctic ecosystems, with large-scale economic and political repercussions. Sea melt has severely threatened food security for Indigenous communities, disrupting traditional hunting seasons, altering wildlife migrations, and making travel routes unstable. These patterns have also created renewed sets of international governance challenges, with world powers (the United States, the European Union, China, and Denmark, primarily) in conflict over exposed rare earth minerals and new polar transit and shipping lanes in Greenland.

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