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2017 Arctic Report Card: Visual Highlights

Aerial photo of Greenland glacier

Marine-terminating glacier in Greenland. Photographed from aircraft during NASA GLISTIN-A field field campaign in March 2017.

On December 12, 2017, NOAA and its partners released the 2017 issue of the Arctic Report Card at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans. Now in its 12th year, the Arctic Report Card is a NOAA-led, peer-reviewed report that brings together the work of scores of scientists from across the world to report on air, ocean, land and ecosystem changes in the Far North. It is a key tool used around the world to track changes in the Arctic and how those changes may affect communities, businesses, and people. Below is a collection of maps and other images highlighting some of this year's key findings.


Near-record high surface temperatures

 


Warm summers a challenge for young Alaska pollock

 


Sea ice declines unprecedented for at least 1,500 years

 


Summer temperatures rising rapidly in most Arctic seas

 


Very old ice has nearly vanished from Arctic

 


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