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2024 Arctic Report Card
December 21 , 2024
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- For the past 15 years, the Arctic snow season has been one to two weeks shorter than it was historically.
- Overall, 2024 brought the second-warmest temperatures to the Arctic since measurements began in 1900, and the wettest summer on record.
- For thousands of years, the Arctic tundra landscape of shrubs and permafrost, or frozen ground, has acted as a carbon dioxide sink.
- Greenland Ice Sheet continued its 27-year record of ice loss.
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