Norway stopped coal mining operations in the Arctic back in 2017 and now they’re cancelling the last mine, piece by piece, with the end goal to transform the entire area into a national park that will be twice the size of Wyoming’s Grand Teton. They want to make the Svalbard […]
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An Antarctica Heat Wave Melted 20 % of the Snow in 9 Days
Earlier this month, a heat wave melted the northern tip of Antarctica in only 9 days. The NASA images show that almost ¼ of the snow cover on the island was gone, a common sign of the ongoing climate crisis. By the end of the heat wave that lasted 9 […]
NASA Video Shows the Disappearing Arctic Polar Ice Cap
Will humanity soon witness the complete disappearance of the Arctic Polar Ice Cap? The Arctic sea ice, a vast surface of frozen seawater floating on the Arctic Ocean and on the neighboring seas, has been declining in the past decades. Unfortunately, as its extent reduced, the oldest and thickest ice […]