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Bookmark or Share- 10 facts about the Arctic - National Geographic Kids1. The Arctic is located at the northernmost part of our planet. Scientists usually define the Arctic as the area above the ‘Arctic Circle’ — an imaginary line that circles around the top of the globe. 2. The Arctic consists of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, the USA, Greenland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Iceland.
- Climate change - WWF ArcticCLIMATE Change. The Arctic’s average temperature has already risen at a rate of almost four times the global average, warming faster than any other region on Earth, while also trying to cope with the impacts from a growing global rush for resources, new shipping routes, and opportunities.
- Arctic - WikipediaThe Arctic region is a unique area among Earth's ecosystems. The cultures in the region and the Arctic indigenous peoples have adapted to its cold and extreme conditions. Life in the Arctic includes zooplankton and phytoplankton, fish and marine mammals, birds, land animals, plants and human societies. [3]
- Arctic Report Card: Climate change transforming Arctic into ...NOAA’s 2021 Arctic Report Card documents the numerous ways that climate change continues to fundamentally alter this once reliably-frozen region, as increasing heat and the loss of ice drive its transformation into a warmer, less frozen and more uncertain future.
- Arctic Ocean | Definition, Location, Map, Climate, & Facts - BritannicaArctic Ocean, smallest of the world’s oceans, centering approximately on the North Pole. The Arctic Ocean and its marginal seas are the least-known basins and bodies of water in the world ocean as a result of their remoteness, hostile weather, and perennial or seasonal ice cover.
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