Across Quote by Michael Specter

I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in…

— Katey Walter

A less icy Arctic is coming, and generally speaking, that's not a good thing. Climate change is warming this region twice as fast as…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six…

— Bill McKibben

We have no choice: we must protect Arctic ice, enable it to continue to act as an essential temperature regulator for the planet, avoid…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco

Melting permafrost in Greenland and the Arctic tundra is releasing vast amounts of methane, a potent climate-altering gas.

— Tatiana Schlossberg

We need to be realistic. There is very little we can do now to stop the ice from disappearing from the North Pole in…

— Prince Charles

For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the…

— Ban Ki-moon

I have long been something of a climate-change sceptic, but my views in recent years have shifted. For me, the most convincing evidence that…

— Michael Hanlon

Every [Alaskan] has witnessed climate change over the past fifty years. Our winters are warmer, our summers are longer, and our Arctic Village shores,…

— Ray Metcalfe

The entire western Siberian sub-Arctic region is melting, and it has all happened in the last three or four years.

— Joseph J. Romm

The North Pole will be ice-free during summer in years to come, and that itself will put the Arctic Sea basin on a very…

— Aleqa Hammond

The Arctic is a place that historically, during all preceding human history, has largely been an icy realm with an impact on ocean currents.…

— Sylvia Earle