Environment

The Arctic Circle has continued to warm at more than twice the rate as the rest of the world through 2021

·        People living within the cold however quickly warming Arctic region seem to be trapped between 2 crises: The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and a changing climate.

·        “The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing challenges for alaska natives in accessing traditional foods,” said the Arctic report card published recently by the Arctic Program of the National Oceanic and atmospherical Administration.

·        It was only “the strength of indigenous cultural and economic practices such as food sharing networks that helped mitigate these challenges,” found the report.

·        One such network is the Indigenous Food Knowledges Network, which operates in the Arctic and the United States mid-west, bridging the two diverse regions.

·        The arctic ocean is acidifying quicker than the rest of the world oceans, that threatens the whole ecosystem that the ocean supports.

·        The arctic circle, one of the most climatologically important regions on the earth, has continued to warm at over twice the rate because the rest of the world through 2021.

·        The warming has as-well caused major disruptions within the ecology of the Arctic region. Scientists observed a higher ocean primary productivity than the long-run average between 2003 and 2020.

·        Ocean primary productivity is measured in terms of the extent of phytoplankton within the oceans, that type the 1st link in the food web of most marine ecosystems.