
Arctic Basecamp
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A team of scientists taking what we know about the global climate risks from polar change to the most powerful audiences.
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🎧 This morning, BBC Radio 4 opened the 8am news with a rare segment on the Arctic — covering climate change, rising tensions with Russia & China, and Norway Day pride on Svalbard. They also interviewed Russia’s ambassador to Norway. 📻 Worth a 10 mins listen:






🩺 We welcome the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Action Plan (GAP) on Climate Change and Health, which rightly frames the climate crisis as a global health crisis. This is a timely call to action as all Parties to the UN Climate Change must submit new and enhanced Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

🌡️ The World Meteorological Organization new "Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update" predicts that over the next five Northern Hemisphere winters, the Arctic will warm by 2.4°C above average – that’s more than 3.5 times faster than the rest of the planet. This kind of rapid warming means even more loss of






🐋 On World Oceans Day, and on the eve of the 3rd UN Ocean Conference, a timely reminder from science: we’re falling short on protecting the species most vital to ocean health. A new research, to which our very own scientist-in-residence James Grecian contributed, tracked over


