PEW Environmental Group - The Pew Environment Group today released a report that for the first time quantifies the global cost of the Arctic’s declining ability to cool the climate, indicating that the rapid melting of the region could carry a minimum price tag of $2.4 trillion U.S. by 2050. ...

University of Alaska Fairbanks - The Arctic appears to be getting greener, and the resulting changes in vegetation are expected to have profound consequences for the landscape, wildlife and people of the Arctic. Scientists from the United States, Switzerland, Finland and Russia, led by Donald "Skip" Walker of the Institute ...