Alaska showed above average temperatures already in May and it continued through the end of June. For example, in the northernmost community of the U.S. state, Utqiavik, 18°C was reported. This leads to supply problems and also more wild and tundra fires. Image: NASA...
This is one of about 100,000 pairs of Magellanic penguins breeding in Punta Tombo. However, each year the colony size shrinks by one percent. Photo: Wikimedia Commons / Ankara, CC BY-SA 3.0 The increasingly frequent weather extremes due to climate change include heat...
The map shows the temperature anomalies over Siberia and the American Pacific coast. The measured values were up to 15°C above the average temperature (yellow – red). Meanwhile, temperatures in other regions such as Spain and the UK have been well below expected...
Satellite image (Terra/MODIS) of Alaska on July 9, 2019. The red dots indicate wildfires with smoke drifting across the Bering Strait. Image: NASA In recent years, there have been numerous large-scale wildfires in the Arctic regions of Russia, Canada and the USA,...
