Rising permafrost temperatures could bring widespread thawing

The majority of Arctic observation sites in 2016 reported the highest permafrost temperatures on record, UAF researcher Vladimir Romanovsky said at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans. Read more

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Driven by open ocean, Arctic continues to warm

At this gathering of thousands of scientists at a horseshoe bend in the lower Mississippi River, a few talked about a place far away they have been watching for years. “The Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen state it was a decade ago,” said Jeremy Mathis, an oceanographer with the Pacific Marine Environmental Lab in Seattle. Read more