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Alaska Air Pollution Holds Clues for Other Arctic Climates

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3/25/2022 - By Mark Thiessen. FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — In the pristine expanse of Alaska’s interior lies a dirty secret: some of the most polluted winter air in the United States can be found in and around Fairbanks. The Fairbanks North Star Borough, which includes Alaska’s second largest city, routinely exceeds limits… SEE MORE
  • Alaska
  • Arctic
  • climate change

The Iciest Waters Around Antarctica Are Less Icy

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6/19/2020 - By Henry Fountain. The sea ice that surrounds Antarctica, like that in the Arctic, is seasonal: it increases in extent during the winter and largely melts in the summer. The exception has been the Weddell Sea, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, which retains much of its ice from year to… SEE MORE
  • Arctic
  • climate change
  • Sea Ice
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arctic-ozone-hole-largest-closed/

The Largest Arctic Ozone Hole Ever Recorded is Now Closed

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  • Nature
5/1/2020 - By Sophie Lewis. Just as suddenly as it first formed, a record-breaking ozone hole has healed. The largest ozone hole to ever open up over the Arctic is now closed, after first opening up earlier this spring. Scientists monitoring the "unprecedented" hole at the Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) announced the closure last… SEE MORE
  • Arctic
  • Ozone

Arctic Sea Ice Reached Its Annual High on March 5th

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  • Nature
3/26/2020 - Arctic sea ice extent—the area where ice concentration is at least 15 percent—reached its apparent annual maximum on March 5, 2020. On March 24, the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reported that the 2019–2020 growth season had an unexceptional finish: 5.81 million square miles (15.05 million square kilometers). It was… SEE MORE
  • Arctic
  • Sea Ice

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