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The effects of global warming in the Arctic, or climate change in the Arctic include rising temperatures, loss of sea ice, and melting of the Greenland ice sheet with a related cold temperature anomaly, observed in recent years.^[1]^[2]^[3] Potential methane release from the region, especially through the thawing of permafrost and methane clathrates, is also a concern. The Arctic warms twice as fast compared to the rest of the world.^[4] The pronounced warming signal, the amplified response of the Arctic to global warming, it is often seen as a leading indicator of global warming. The melting of Greenland's ice sheet is linked to polar amplification.^[5]^[6] According to a study published in 2016, about 0.5◦C of the warming in the Arctic has been attributed to reductions in sulfate aerosols in Europe since 1980.^[7]

Rising temperatures

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, "warming in the Arctic, as indicated by daily maximum and minimum temperatures, has been as great as in any other part of the world."^[8] The period of 1995–2005 was the warmest decade in the Arctic since at least the 17th century, with temperatures 2 °C (3.6 °F) above the 1951–1990 average.^[9] Some regions within the Arctic have warmed even more rapidly, with Alaska and western Canada's temperature rising by 3 to 4 °C (5.40 to 7.20 °F).^[10] This warming has been caused not only by the rise in greenhouse gas concentration, but also the deposition of soot on Arctic ice.^[11] A 2013 article published in Geophysical Research Letters has shown that temperatures in the region haven't been as high as they currently are since at least 44,000 years ago and perhaps as long as 120,000 years ago. The authors conclude that "anthropogenic increases in greenhouse gases have led to unprecedented regional warmth."^[12]^[13]

Arctic amplification

The poles of the Earth are more sensitive to any change in the planet's climate than the rest of the planet. In the face of ongoing global warming, the poles are warming faster than lower latitudes. The primary cause of this phenomenon is ice-albedo feedback, whereby melting ice uncovers darker land or ocean beneath, which then absorbs more sunlight, causing more heating.^[14]^[15]^[16] The loss of the Arctic sea ice may represent a tipping point in global warming, when 'runaway' climate change starts,^[17]^[18] but on this point the science is not yet settled.^[19]^[20] According to a 2015 study, based on computer modelling of aerosols in the atmosphere, up to 0.5 degrees Celsius of the warming observed in the Arctic between 1980 and 2005 is due to aerosol reductions in Europe.^[21]

Black carbon

Black carbon deposits (from the exhaust system of marine engines) reduce the albedo when deposited on snow and ice, and thus accelerate the effect of the melting of snow and sea ice.^[22]

According to a 2015 study, reductions in black carbon emissions and other minor greenhouse gases, by roughly 60 percent, could cool the Arctic up to 0.2 °C by 2050.^[23]

Decline of sea ice

Sea ice is currently in decline in area, extent, and volume and may cease to exist sometime during the 21st century. Sea ice area refers to the total area covered by ice, whereas sea ice extent is the area of ocean with at least 15% sea ice, while the volume is the total amount of ice in the Arctic.^[24]

Changes in extent and area

1870–2009 Northern Hemisphere sea ice extent in million square kilometers. Blue shading indicates the pre-satellite era; data then is less reliable. In particular, the near-constant level extent in autumn up to 1940 reflects lack of data rather than a real lack of variation.

Reliable measurement of sea ice edges began with the satellite era in the late 1970s. Before this time, sea ice area and extent were monitored less precisely by a combination of ships, buoys and aircraft.^[25] The data show a long-term negative trend in recent years, attributed to global warming, although there is also a considerable amount of variation from year to year.^[26] Some of this variation may be related to effects such as the Arctic oscillation, which may itself be related to global warming.^[27]

The Arctic sea ice September minimum extent (i.e., area with at least 15% sea ice coverage) reached new record lows in 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2012.^[28] The 2007 melt season let to a minimum 39% below the 1979–2000 average, and for the first time in human memory, the fabled Northwest Passage opened completely.^[29] The dramatic 2007 melting surprised and concerned scientists.^[30]^[31]

From 2008 to 2011, Arctic sea ice minimum extent was higher than 2007, but it did not return to the levels of previous years.^[32]^[33] In 2012 however, the 2007 record low was broken in late August with three weeks still left in the melt season.^[34] It continued to fall, bottoming out on 16 September 2012 at 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles), or 760,000 square kilometers (293,000 square miles) below the previous low set on 18 September 2007 and 50% below the 1979–2000 average.^[35]^[36]

The rate of the decline in entire Arctic ice coverage is accelerating. From 1979–1996, the average per decade decline in entire ice coverage was a 2.2% decline in ice extent and a 3% decline in ice area. For the decade ending 2008, these values have risen to 10.1% and 10.7%, respectively. These are comparable to the September to September loss rates in year-round ice (i.e., perennial ice, which survives throughout the year), which averaged a retreat of 10.2% and 11.4% per decade, respectively, for the period 1979–2007.^[37]

Changes in volume

The sea ice thickness field and accordingly the ice volume and mass, is much more difficult to determine than the extension. Exact measurements can be made only at a limited number of points. Because of large variations in ice and snow thickness and consistency air- and spaceborne-measurements have to be evaluated carefully. Nevertheless, the studies made support the assumption of a dramatic decline in ice age and thickness.^[33] While the Arctic ice area and extent show an accelerating downward trend, arctic ice volume shows an even sharper decline than the ice coverage. Since 1979, the ice volume has shrunk by 80% and in just the past decade the volume declined by 36% in the autumn and 9% in the winter.^[39]

An end to summer sea ice?

The IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 summarized the current state of sea ice projections: "the projected reduction [in global sea ice cover] is accelerated in the Arctic, where some models project summer sea ice cover to disappear entirely in the high-emission A2 scenario in the latter part of the 21st century.″ ^[40] However, current climate models frequently underestimate the rate of sea ice retreat.^[41] A summertime ice-free Arctic would be unprecedented in recent geologic history, as currently scientific evidence does not indicate an ice-free polar sea anytime in the last 700,000 years.^[42]^[43]

The Arctic ocean will likely be free of summer sea ice before the year 2100, but many different dates have been projected. One study suggests 2060–2080,^[44] another 2030,^[45]^[46] and, yet another, 2016.^[47]^[48] A 2013 study showed that simply extending summertime ice melting trends into the future in a straight line predicts an ice-free summertime Arctic as early as by 2020.^[49]^[50]

Permafrost thaw

This century, thawing of the various types of Arctic permafrost could release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. It has been estimated that about two-thirds of released carbon escapes to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, originating primarily from ancient ice deposits along the ~7,000 kilometer long coastline of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) and shallow subsea permafrost. Following thaw, collapse and erosion of coastline and seafloor deposits may accelerate with Arctic amplification of climate warming.^[51]

Climate models suggest that during periods of rapid sea-ice loss, temperatures could increase as far as 1,450 km (900 mi) inland, accelerating the rate of terrestrial permafrost thaw, with consequential effects on carbon and methane release.^[52]^[53]

Subsea permafrost

Subsea permafrost occurs beneath the seabed and exists in the continental shelves of the polar regions.^[54] This source of methane is different from methane clathrates, but contributes to the overall outcome and feedbacks.

Sea ice serves to stabilise methane deposits on and near the shoreline,^[55] preventing the clathrate breaking down and venting into the water column and eventually reaching the atmosphere. From sonar measurements in recent years researchers quantified the density of bubbles emanating from the subsea permafrost into the Ocean (a process called ebullition), and found that 100–630 mg methane per square meters is emitted daily along the East Siberian Shelf, into the water column. They also found that during storms, methane levels in the water column drop dramatically, when wind-driven air-sea gas exchange accelerates the ebullition process into the atmosphere. This observed pathway suggests that methane from seabed permafrost will progress rather slowly, instead of abrupt changes. However, Arctic cyclones, fueled by global warming and further accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere could contribute to more release from this methane cache, which is really important for the Arctic.^[56] An update to the mechanisms of this permafrost degradation, implying the possibility of being close to an acceleration of methane release was published in 2017.^[57]

Changes in vegetation

Changes in vegetation are associated with the increases in landscape scale methane emissions.^[58]

The growing season has lengthened in the far northern latitudes, bringing major changes to plant communities in tundra and boreal (also known as taiga) ecosystems.

For decades, NASA and NOAA satellites have continuously monitored vegetation from space. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) and Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) instruments measure the intensity of visible and near-infrared light reflecting off of plant leaves. Scientists use the information to calculate the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), an indicator of photosynthetic activity or “greenness” of the landscape.

The maps above show the Arctic Vegetation Index Trend between July 1982 and December 2011 in the Arctic Circle. Shades of green depict areas where plant productivity and abundance increased; shades of brown show where photosynthetic activity declined. The maps show a ring of greening in the treeless tundra ecosystems of the circumpolar Arctic—the northernmost parts of Canada, Russia, and Scandinavia. Tall shrubs and trees started to grow in areas that were previously dominated by tundra grasses. The researchers concluded that plant growth had increased by 7 to 10 percent overall.

However, boreal forests, particularly those in North America, showed a different response to warming. Many boreal forests greened, but the trend was not as strong as it was for tundra of the circumpolar Arctic. In North America, some boreal forests actually experienced “browning” (less photosynthetic activity) over the study period. Droughts, forest fire activity, animal and insect behavior, industrial pollution, and a number of other factors may have contributed to the browning.

"Satellite data identify areas in the boreal zone that are warmer and drier and other areas that are warmer and wetter," explained co-author Ramakrishna Nemani of NASA’s Ames Research Center. "Only the warmer and wetter areas support more growth."

"We found more plant growth in the boreal zone from 1982 to 1992 than from 1992 to 2011, because water limitations were encountered in the later two decades of our study," added co-author Sangram Ganguly of the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute and NASA Ames.^[59]

The less severe winters in tundra areas allow shrubs such as alders and dwarf birch to replace moss and lichens. The impact on mosses and lichens is unclear as there exist very few studies at species level, also climate change is more likely to cause increased fluctuation and more frequent extreme events.^[60] The feedback effect of shrubs on the tundra's permafrost is unclear. In the winter they trap more snow which insulates the permafrost from extreme cold spells, but in the summer they shade the ground from direct sunlight.^[61] The warming is likely to cause changes in the plant communities.^[62] Except for an increase in shurbs, warming may also cause a decline in cushion plants such as moss campion. Since cushion plants act as facilitator species across trophic level and fill important roles in severe environments this could cause cascading effects in the ecosystems.^[63] Rising summer temperature melts on Canada's Baffin Island have revealed moss previously covered which has not seen daylight in 44,000 years.^[64]

The reduction of sea ice has boosted the productivity of phytoplankton by about twenty percent over the past thirty years. However, the effect on marine ecosystems is unclear, since the larger types of phytoplankton, which are the preferred food source of most zooplankton, do not appear to have increased as much as the smaller types. So far, Arctic phytoplankton have not had a significant impact on the global carbon cycle.^[65] In summer, the melt ponds on young and thin ice have allowed sunlight to penetrate the ice, in turn allowing phytoplankton to bloom in unexpected concentrations, although it is unknown just how long this phenomenon has been occurring.^[66]

Changes for animals

The northward shift of the subarctic climate zone is allowing animals that are adapted to that climate to move into the far north, where they are replacing species that are more adapted to a pure Arctic climate. Where the Arctic species are not being replaced outright, they are often interbreeding with their southern relations. Among slow-breeding vertebrate species, this often has the effect of reducing the genetic diversity of the genus. Another concern is the spread of infectious diseases, such as brucellosis or phocine distemper virus, to previously untouched populations. This is a particular danger among marine mammals who were previously segregated by sea ice.^[67]

3 April 2007, the National Wildlife Federation urged the United States Congress to place polar bears under the Endangered Species Act.^[68] Four months later, the United States Geological Survey completed a year-long study^[69] which concluded in part that the floating Arctic sea ice will continue its rapid shrinkage over the next 50 years, consequently wiping out much of the polar bear habitat. The bears would disappear from Alaska, but would continue to exist in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and areas off the northern Greenland coast.^[70] Secondary ecological effects are also resultant from the shrinkage of sea ice; for example, polar bears are denied their historic length of seal hunting season due to late formation and early thaw of pack ice.

Melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet

Models predict a sea-level contribution of about 5 centimetres (2 in) from melting in Greenland during the 21st century.^[71] It is also predicted that Greenland will become warm enough by 2100 to begin an almost complete melt during the next 1,000 years or more.^[72]^[73] In early July 2012, 97% percent of the Ice Sheet experienced some form of surface melt including the summits.^[74]

Ice thickness measurements from the GRACE satellite indicate that ice mass loss is accelerating. For the period 2002–2009, the rate of loss increased from −137 Gt/yr to −286 Gt/yr, with an acceleration of −30 gigatonnes per year per year.^[75]

Effect on ocean circulation

Although this is now thought unlikely in the near future, it has also been suggested that there could be a shutdown of thermohaline circulation, similar to that which is believed to have driven the Younger Dryas, an abrupt climate change event. There is also potentially a possibility of a more general disruption of ocean circulation, which may lead to an ocean anoxic event, although these are believed to be much more common in the distant past. It is unclear whether the appropriate pre-conditions for such an event exist today.

Territorial claims

Growing evidence that global warming is shrinking polar ice has added to the urgency of several nations' Arctic territorial claims in hopes of establishing resource development and new shipping lanes, in addition to protecting sovereign rights.^[76]

Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller and Greenland's Premier Hans Enoksen invited foreign ministers from Canada, Norway, Russia and the United States to Ilulissat, Greenland for a summit in May 2008 to discuss how to divide borders in the changing Arctic region, and a discussion on more cooperation against climate change affecting the Arctic.^[77] At the Arctic Ocean Conference, Foreign Ministers and other officials representing the five countries announced the Ilulissat Declaration on 28 May 2008.^[78]^[79]

Social impacts

People are affecting the geographic space of the Arctic and the Arctic is affecting the population. Much of the climate change in the Arctic can be attributed to humans influences on the atmosphere, such as an increased greenhouse effect caused by the increase in CO₂ due to the burning of fossil fuels.^[80] Climate change is having a direct impact on the people that live in the Arctic, as well as other societies around the world.^[81]

The warming environment presents challenges to local communities such as the Inuit. Hunting, which is a major way of survival for some small communities, will be changed with increasing temperatures.^[82] The reduction of sea ice will cause certain species populations to decline or even become extinct.^[81] In good years, some communities are fully employed by the commercial harvest of certain animals.^[82]^{[dead link‍]} The harvest of different animals fluctuates each year and with the rise of temperatures it is likely to continue changing and creating issues for Inuit hunters. Unsuspected changes in river and snow conditions will cause herds of animals, including reindeer, to change migration patterns, calving grounds, and forage availability.^[81]

Other forms of transportation in the Arctic have seen negative impacts from the current warming, with some transportation routes and pipelines on land being disrupted by the melting of ice.^[81] Many Arctic communities rely on frozen roadways to transport supplies and travel from area to area.^[81] The changing landscape and unpredictability of weather is creating new challenges in the Arctic.^[83]

The Transpolar Sea Route is a future Arctic shipping lane running from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean across the center of the Arctic Ocean. The route is also sometimes called Trans-Arctic Route. In contrast to the Northeast Passage (including the Northern Sea Route) and the North-West Passage it largely avoids the territorial waters of Arctic states and lies in international high seas.^[84]

Governments and private industry have shown a growing interest in the Arctic.^[85] Major new shipping lanes are opening up: the northern sea route had 34 passages in 2011 while the Northwest Passage had 22 traverses, more than any time in history.^[86] Shipping companies may benefit from the shortened distance of these northern routes. Access to natural resources will increase, including valuable minerals and offshore oil and gas.^[81] Finding and controlling these resources will be difficult with the continually moving ice.^[81] Tourism may also increase as less sea ice will improve safety and accessibility to the Arctic.^[81]

The melting of Arctic ice caps is likely to increase traffic in and the commercial viability of the Northern Sea Route. One study, for instance, projects, "remarkable shifts in trade flows between Asia and Europe, diversion of trade within Europe, heavy shipping traffic in the Arctic and a substantial drop in Suez traffic. Projected shifts in trade also imply substantial pressure on an already threatened Arctic ecosystem."^[87]

Research

National

Individual countries within the Arctic zone, Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States (Alaska) conduct independent research through a variety of organizations and agencies, public and private, such as Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute. Countries who do not have Arctic claims, but are close neighbors, conduct Arctic research as well, such as the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration (CAA). The United States's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) produces an Arctic Report Card annually, containing peer-reviewed information on recent observations of environmental conditions in the Arctic relative to historical records.

International

International cooperative research between nations has become increasingly important:

Arctic climate change is summarized by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its series of Assessment Reports and the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment.
DAMOCLES (Developing Arctic Modeling and Observing Capabilities for Long-term Environmental Studies): European integrated project "specifically concerned with the potential for a significantly reduced sea ice cover, and the impacts this might have on the environment and on human activities, both regionally and globally".
European Space Agency (ESA) launched CryoSat-2 on 8 April 2010. It provides satellite data on Arctic ice cover change rates.^[88]
International Arctic Buoy Program: deploys and maintains buoys that provide real-time position, pressure, temperature, and interpolated ice velocity data
International Arctic Research Center: Main participants are the United States and Japan.
International Arctic Science Committee: non-governmental organization (NGO) with diverse membership, including 18 countries from 3 continents.
'Role of the Arctic Region', in conjunction with the International Polar Year, was the focus of the second international conference on Global Change Research, held in Nynäshamn, Sweden, October 2007.^[89]^[90]
SEARCH (Study of Environmental Arctic Change): Supported by the Arctic Research Office, a division of the United States' National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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World Wildlife Foundation's International Arctic Programme
Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis
The Arctic ice sheet, satellite map with daily updates.
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 Reliable [[measurement of sea ice]] edges began with the satellite era in the late 1970s. Before this time, sea ice area and extent were monitored less precisely by a combination of ships, buoys and aircraft.<ref name="Whither Arctic sea ice? A clear signal of decline regionally, seasonally and extending beyond the satellite record"/> The data show a long-term negative trend in recent years, attributed to global warming, although there is also a considerable amount of variation from year to year.<ref name="NASASeesArcticOcean"/> Some of this variation may be related to effects such as the [[Arctic oscillation]], which may itself be related to global warming.<ref name="The Arctic and Antarctic Oscillations and their Projected Changes Under Global Warming"/>
-The Arctic sea ice September minimum extent (i.e., area with at least 15% sea ice coverage) reached new record lows in 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2012/sea-ice-minimum|title= Record Arctic sea ice minimum confirmed by NSIDC}}</ref> The 2007 melt season let to a minimum 39% below the 1979–2000 average, and for the first time in human memory, the fabled [[Northwest Passage]] opened completely.<ref name="nsidc"/> The dramatic 2007 melting surprised and concerned scientists.<ref name="Remarkable"/><ref name="NASA - Monitoring Sea Ice"/>
+The Arctic sea ice September minimum extent (i.e., area with at least 15% sea ice coverage) reached new record lows in 2002, 2005, 2007, and 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2012/sea-ice-minimum|title= Record Arctic sea ice minimum confirmed by NSIDC|deadurl= yes|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130729155912/http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/news/releases/archive/2012/sea-ice-minimum|archivedate= 29 July 2013|df= dmy-all}}</ref> The 2007 melt season let to a minimum 39% below the 1979–2000 average, and for the first time in human memory, the fabled [[Northwest Passage]] opened completely.<ref name="nsidc"/> The dramatic 2007 melting surprised and concerned scientists.<ref name="Remarkable"/><ref name="NASA - Monitoring Sea Ice"/>
 [[File:Oldest Arctic Sea Ice is Disappearing.png|left|thumb|Sea ice coverage in 1980 (bottom) and 2012 (top), as observed by passive microwave sensors on NASA’s Nimbus-7 satellite and by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP). Multi-year ice is shown in bright white, while average sea ice cover is shown in light blue to milky white. The data shows the ice cover for the period of 1 November through 31 January in their respective years.]]
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 ===Changes in volume===
 [[File:Plot arctic sea ice volume.svg|thumb|Seasonal variation and long-term decrease of Arctic sea ice volume as determined by measurement backed numerical modelling.<ref name="zhangrothrock1"/>]]
-The sea ice thickness field and accordingly the ice volume and mass, is much more difficult to determine than the extension. Exact measurements can be made only at a limited number of points. Because of large variations in ice and snow thickness and consistency air- and spaceborne-measurements have to be evaluated carefully.  Nevertheless, the studies made support the assumption of a dramatic decline in ice age and thickness.<ref name="Arcticseaiceextent" /> While the Arctic ice area and extent show an accelerating downward trend, arctic ice volume shows an even sharper decline than the ice coverage. Since 1979, the ice volume has shrunk by 80% and in just the past decade the volume declined by 36% in the autumn and 9% in the winter.<ref>{{cite news|last=Masters|first=Jeff|title=Arctic sea ice volume now one-fifth its 1979 level|url=http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html?entrynum=2352|work=weather underground|date=19 February 2013|accessdate=14 September 2013}}</ref>
+The sea ice thickness field and accordingly the ice volume and mass, is much more difficult to determine than the extension. Exact measurements can be made only at a limited number of points. Because of large variations in ice and snow thickness and consistency air- and spaceborne-measurements have to be evaluated carefully.  Nevertheless, the studies made support the assumption of a dramatic decline in ice age and thickness.<ref name="Arcticseaiceextent" /> While the Arctic ice area and extent show an accelerating downward trend, arctic ice volume shows an even sharper decline than the ice coverage. Since 1979, the ice volume has shrunk by 80% and in just the past decade the volume declined by 36% in the autumn and 9% in the winter.<ref>{{cite news|last=Masters|first=Jeff|title=Arctic sea ice volume now one-fifth its 1979 level|url=http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html?entrynum=2352|work=weather underground|date=19 February 2013|accessdate=14 September 2013|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219012233/http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html?entrynum=2352|archivedate=19 December 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
 ===An end to summer sea ice?===
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 People are affecting the geographic space of the Arctic and the Arctic is affecting the population. Much of the climate change in the Arctic can be attributed to humans influences on the atmosphere, such as an increased [[greenhouse effect]]  caused by the increase in {{CO2}} due to the burning of [[fossil fuel]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ciesin.org/docs/003-074/003-074.html|title=Greenhouse Effect|work=ciesin.org}}</ref> Climate change is having a direct impact on the people that live in the Arctic, as well as other societies around the world.<ref name="ClimateImpactAssessment">{{cite book|last=Hassol|first=Susan Joy|title=Impacts of a warming Arctic|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge, UK|isbn=978-0-521-61778-9|edition=Reprinted}}</ref>
-The warming environment presents challenges to local communities such as the [[Inuit]]. Hunting, which is a major way of survival for some small communities, will be changed with increasing temperatures.<ref name="ethz.ch">{{cite web |url=http://www.ecology.ethz.ch/education/Resilience_Stuff/Berkes_and_Jolly_2001.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-11-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/6JqZEroXP?url=http://www.ecology.ethz.ch/education/Resilience_Stuff/Berkes_and_Jolly_2001.pdf |archivedate=23 September 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The reduction of [[sea ice]] will cause certain species populations to decline or even become extinct.<ref name="ClimateImpactAssessment" /> In good years, some communities are fully employed by the commercial harvest of certain animals.<ref name="ethz.ch"/>{{dead link|date=October 2016}} The harvest of different animals fluctuates each year and with the rise of temperatures it is likely to continue changing and creating issues for Inuit hunters. Unsuspected changes in river and snow conditions will cause herds of animals, including reindeer, to change migration patterns, [[Birth#Cattle|calving]] grounds, and [[forage]] availability.<ref name="ClimateImpactAssessment" />
+The warming environment presents challenges to local communities such as the [[Inuit]]. Hunting, which is a major way of survival for some small communities, will be changed with increasing temperatures.<ref name="ethz.ch">{{cite web |url=http://www.ecology.ethz.ch/education/Resilience_Stuff/Berkes_and_Jolly_2001.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2012-11-05 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6JqZEroXP?url=http://www.ecology.ethz.ch/education/Resilience_Stuff/Berkes_and_Jolly_2001.pdf |archivedate=23 September 2013 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The reduction of [[sea ice]] will cause certain species populations to decline or even become extinct.<ref name="ClimateImpactAssessment" /> In good years, some communities are fully employed by the commercial harvest of certain animals.<ref name="ethz.ch"/>{{dead link|date=October 2016}} The harvest of different animals fluctuates each year and with the rise of temperatures it is likely to continue changing and creating issues for Inuit hunters. Unsuspected changes in river and snow conditions will cause herds of animals, including reindeer, to change migration patterns, [[Birth#Cattle|calving]] grounds, and [[forage]] availability.<ref name="ClimateImpactAssessment" />
 Other forms of transportation in the Arctic have seen negative impacts from the current warming, with some transportation routes and pipelines on land being disrupted by the melting of ice.<ref name="ClimateImpactAssessment" /> Many Arctic communities rely on frozen roadways to transport supplies and travel from area to area.<ref name="ClimateImpactAssessment" /> The changing landscape and unpredictability of weather is creating new challenges in the Arctic.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Nuttall|first=Mark|author2=Pierre-André Forest|author3=Svein D. Mathiesen|title=Adaptation to Climate Change in The Arctic|journal=University of the Arctic|date=February 2008|pages=1–5|url=http://www.uarctic.org/Adaptation_to_Climate_Change_in_the_Arctic_FIN...}}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
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 <ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |author=Slivka K|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/science/earth/rare-burst-of-melting-seen-in-greenland-ice-sheet.html |title=Rare Burst of Melting Seen in Greenland Ice Sheet|date=25 July 2012|publisher=NYTimes.com |work= |accessdate=4 November 2012}}</ref>
-<ref name="Ottera">{{cite journal | last = Butt | first = F. A. |author2=H. Drange |author3=A. Elverhoi |author4=O. H. Ottera |author5=A. Solheim | url = http://www.nersc.no/~oddho/Thesis/chapter3.pdf | title = The Sensitivity of the North Atlantic Arctic Climate System to Isostatic Elevation Changes, Freshwater and Solar Forcings | publisher = Quaternary Science Reviews | volume = 21 | pages = 1643–1660 | year = 2002 | oclc = 108566094 | issue = 14–15}}</ref>
+<ref name="Ottera">{{cite journal | last = Butt | first = F. A. | author2 = H. Drange | author3 = A. Elverhoi | author4 = O. H. Ottera | author5 = A. Solheim | url = http://www.nersc.no/~oddho/Thesis/chapter3.pdf | title = The Sensitivity of the North Atlantic Arctic Climate System to Isostatic Elevation Changes, Freshwater and Solar Forcings | publisher = Quaternary Science Reviews | volume = 21 | pages = 1643–1660 | year = 2002 | oclc = 108566094 | issue = 14–15 | deadurl = yes | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080910213953/http://www.nersc.no/~oddho/Thesis/chapter3.pdf | archivedate = 10 September 2008 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
 <ref name="overpeck">{{cite journal | last = Overpeck | first = Jonathan T. | url = http://atoc.colorado.edu/~dcn/reprints/Overpeck_etal_EOS2005.pdf | format = PDF | title = Arctic System on Trajectory to New, Seasonally Ice-Free State | journal = [[Eos (journal)|Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union]] | volume = 86 | issue = 34 | pages = 309–316 | date = 23 August 2005 | accessdate = 24 December 2007 | doi = 10.1029/2005EO340001 |displayauthors=3 |last2=Sturm |first2=Matthew |last3=Francis |first3=Jennifer A. |last4=Perovich |first4=Donald K. |last5=Serreze |first5=Mark C. |last6=Benner |first6=Ronald |last7=Carmack |first7=Eddy C. |last8=Chapin |first8=F. Stuart |last9=Gerlach |first9=S. Craig|bibcode = 2005EOSTr..86..309O }}</ref>

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