Read All About It: How Climate Change is Transforming Arctic Travel

December 27, 2019 - Less than a minute read

USA Today recently featured a story on how a warmer climate is transforming Arctic travel, a situation that makes Arctic tourism more feasible than ever before but at the same time presents major challenges to the region’s human and animal inhabitants.

Quotable quote: “While many natural phenomena suffer from the effects of global climate change, one particularly striking loss has been Arctic ice melt. As global temperatures increase, the Arctic region is warming by more than twice the rate of the rest of the Earth, spurring a new breed of tourism into the Arctic: last chance tourism.”

Read the rest of the story by Jared Ranahan here

 

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