The impacts of arctic warming are growing
An official Norwegian report predicts, in fact, a rise in temperatures of 7 to 10 degrees by the end of the century in this archipelago.
STAN HONDA / AFP
By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow
1 min
Since the mid-1990s, the Arctic has been warming at a rate more than twice that of the rest of the world.
Most of its transformations have occurred since WWII and they are accelerating!
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This year, the Arctic sea ice reached its second lowest area on record: 3.7 million square kilometers, half the size of 40 years ago.
All these changes are putting the inhabitants and ecosystems of this region at risk.
Guest:
Rémy Marion
, geographer, photographer, director who has just published
Ovibos the Arctic Survivor
, in the Wild Worlds collection of Actes Sud.
Report:
In Alaska, with the sentinels of the Arctic by Sébastien Daycard.
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