#climate-variability

#climate-variability

Vancouver has experienced an unusually warm winter, on track to be its first without snow in 43 years. Even the bees were out in Vancouver Thursday. (Nav Rahi/CBC) The city is already looking lush and green after one of its warmest Januarys on record. Some of its famed cherry blossoms were blooming by the middle of last month, and have since been joined by daffodils and other flowers.

Scientists have been left baffled after discovering that the melting of sea ice in the Arctic is actually slowing down. Despite rising temperatures, an analysis by experts from the University of Exeter has revealed that the Arctic has been melting at a slower rate for the past 20 years. From 1979 to 2024, ice was lost from the Arctic at a rate of 2.9 million cubic kilometres of ice per decade.