“Rising sea levels pose a direct threat to the UK, with up to 1.5 million properties at an increased risk of flooding by 2080,” the report said. “At the moment, Arctic science is concentrated on its summer, with the Arctic winter – which could tell us an enormous amount about the weather – being under studied,” Gray said. “Russia has been frozen out of Western Arctic science following its invasion of Ukraine,” Gray said. “The Arctic Council, built with the purpose of boosting collaboration with Arctic nations, is becoming less influential and much of its important work has stalled. “Following Russia’s ‘freezing out’ of Arctic Council activity, it has been working with China in the Russian Arctic on oil and gas extraction,” it said.

Source: CBC News October 16, 2023 20:26 UTC