Climate change in the Arctic – is there anything we can do?

Opinion by Margareta Johansson, Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science 2014 The Arctic is where it’s happening. Rising temperatures there are double what they are in the rest of the world. The consequences of higher temperatures, shrinking glaciers and thawing permafrost* are of global interest, because what happens in...

When the permafrost thaws

Snow, frost, water and ice – for many years researchers have studied the impact of climate change on the cryosphere, i.e. all the frozen water in the land and sea. So far, the average temperature in the Arctic has risen by over twice as much as in the rest of...