It’s going to get worse before it gets better. And unless the world takes action, it may never get better. That’s one extremely depressing takeaway from the 2016 Arctic Report Card, presented by a panel of researchers Tuesday at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco. This year’s version of the peer-reviewed report, which has been produced annually since 2006, is the collaborative effort of 61 scientists from 11 countries. It paints a picture of a rapidly changing Arctic environment in which air temperatures are increasing at double the rate of the rest of the world.

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