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Matthew Druckenmiller

Matthew Druckenmiller

Matthew Druckenmiller is a Research Scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) within the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Rainier winters make life more difficult for Arctic wildlife and the humans who rely on them. (Scott Wallace/Getty Images)

Arctic Report Card 2022: The Arctic is getting rainier and seasons are shifting

By: , and - December 26, 2022

In the Arctic, the freedom to travel, hunt and make day-to-day decisions is profoundly tied to cold and frozen conditions for much of the year. These conditions are rapidly changing as the Arctic warms. The Arctic is now seeing more rainfall when historically it would be snowing. Sea ice that once protected coastlines from erosion […]