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.

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By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

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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:

, geographer, photographer, director who has just published

, in the Wild Worlds collection of Actes Sud.

Report:

In Alaska, with the sentinels of the Arctic by Sébastien Daycard.

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