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plants and the roughly 4 million people who live in the Arctic — it has global consequences. Sea ice acts like a giant mirror, reflecting the sunlight away from the Earth and back into space.

The Arctic’s transformation isn’t just a local crisis—it’s a planetary one. 'Wolf 359 is killing planets': Extreme radiation wipes out atmospheres, should Earth be worried? '5.6 million ...

a large spinning mass of cold air in the stratosphere around 15 miles above the Arctic that is prominent during winter months, the findings published in the journal Communications Earth and ...

So the Sun's rays can't reach places in the far north, the Arctic Circle. In these places, it stays dark all day in the middle of winter. But the Earth travels around the Sun, taking a year to do so.