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The changing Arctic

Local and global implications

The climate in the Arctic — one of the world’s last great wildernesses — is warming twice as fast as the global average. Climate change experts Terry Callaghan and Margareta Johansson consider what this means for the organisms that currently live in the Arctic, and for the future of our planet’s climate

Animals that remain in the Arctic during winter rather than migrating, such as the musk ox of Greenland (above), are specifically adapted to low temperatures with highly insulating fur

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