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The Arctic’s wildlife and its 4 million people witnessed another record-hot year in 2025, with the region’s highest annual temperature in over a century of record-keeping, record-high precipitation, and destructive wildfires and storms, the latest Arctic Report Card shows.
It’s part of a disturbing trend that the report’s lead authors — Arctic scientists Matthew Druckenmiller, Twila Moon and Rick Thoman — have been watching play out year after year. Snow is melting sooner, ice that hunters and wildlife rely on is thinning, and permafrost is thawing under buildings and roads.
This is the 20th anniversary of the report card, and the three scientists look back on the extraordinary changes in the far north as the Arctic warms more than twice as fast as the Earth as a whole.
In today’s lead story, they share charts, maps and video to walk readers through the changes, and they describe what communities are facing as their environment transforms around them, “amplifying risks for people who live there.”
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Stacy Morford
Senior Environment, Climate and Energy Editor
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As temperatures rise, the timing of the ice thaw changes.
Vincent Denarie via Arctic Report Card
Matthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Twila A. Moon, University of Colorado Boulder
The 20th anniversary of the annual report tracks how sea ice, snow cover and many other vital signs of the Arctic have changed, and the impact that’s having on people and wildlife.
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Science + Technology
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Alaina Vandervoort Burns, University of California, Los Angeles
The delusions of people with thought disorders have had consistent themes of persecution for decades. But new technology provides fresh material for the content of delusions.
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Kenneth M. Evans, Rice University
The Trump administration is rewriting the 80-year-old American social contract for science research.
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Education
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James Densley, Metropolitan State University
Prevention methods like lockdown drills do not account for many scenarios, including the likely case that a school shooter is a former or current student.
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Health + Medicine
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Anne P. DePrince, University of Denver
The conversation around #iwasfifteen sheds light on the dynamics of abusive relationships and the experiences of trafficking victims.
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Environment + Energy
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Barbara Kates-Garnick, Tufts University
Energy projects are expensive and take a long time to build. Where to build them is often also a difficult, even controversial, question.
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Toni Lyn Morelli, UMass Amherst; U.S. Geological Survey; Diana Stralberg, University of Alberta
Protecting places that are likely to remain cool and moist as global temperatures rise can save wildlife of all kinds, but first we have to find them.
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Politics + Society
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Graham Bodie, University of Mississippi
Should all points of view be heard from? Defending certain values and ideas makes it a bit more complicated than simply listening to all sides.
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Carly Thomsen, Rice University
There are some 2,500 of these centers across the United States. Many are located within a mile of an abortion provider.
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Arlene Stein, Rutgers University
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Ethics + Religion
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Jen Zamzow, University of California, Los Angeles; Concordia University Irvine
Debating whether to step back from a career to take on caregiving responsibilities can be a tough decision – not just financially or emotionally but ethically as well.
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Economy + Business
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Bedassa Tadesse, University of Minnesota Duluth
About 1 in 4 doctors practicing in the US were born abroad.
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Ray Madoff, Boston College
The richest Americans can largely avoid paying income and other taxes. A new book explains the history.
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