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In the Arctic, different effects of the warming climate can combine to create big changes to the landscape. Although wildfires are a normal part of life in the forest regions of the far north, they’re becoming more common, burning larger swaths of land more frequently. This is partly due to different weather patterns. Many wildfires are the result of lightning strikes, and as lightning in the area becomes more common, so do fires. Scientists with NASA’s Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (AB

Peak Arctic sea ice for the winter of 2021 tied for the seventh-lowest on record. NASA Earth data shows that the Arctic region is warming more than three times as fast as the globe over the last 30 years: https://go.nasa.gov/31xmrCW | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration