8️⃣ General Circulation Models, or GCMs, help us understand our changing climate. This map visualizes temp change as a substitute for true elevation in a 3d map, illustrating the disproportionate effect of climate change on the Arctic.

Data Source: KNMI Climate Explorer
🗺️: by @gfiske.bsky.social

6️⃣ An artistic rendition of the Lena River Delta in Russia that represents the realities of our changing Arctic. Since 2003, Woodwell Climate’s ArcticGRO has provided essential data about the biogeochemistry and discharge of the largest Arctic rivers.

Data Source: ArcticDEM
🗺️: by @gfiske.bsky.social

4️⃣This shows the presence of ship activity in the Arctic Ocean from 2009-2018. Patterns of blue (low ship numbers) to white (high ship numbers) reflect the human presence in this new, largely becoming ice-free, part of the world.

Data Source: Berkman et al 2020, Esri.
Map by @gfiske.bsky.social

2️⃣ Forests hold mountains of carbon. The Amazon Rainforest is one of the world’s most carbon-rich forests and tropical forests are one of the only large-scale tools available to combat global warming.

Data source: thecarbonsource.org
Map by @gfiske.bsky.social

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This month, @gfiske.bsky.social e.bsky.social traveled to the region with Marina Tonkopeeva of the International Center for Reindeer Husbandry to work on co-produced maps between Indigenous Dukha herders, ICR experts, and Woodwell Climate cartographers.

More than 600 experts from 111 countries were selected to author and edit the influential UN climate report. Learn more about the full report from @ipcc.bsky.social www.ipcc.ch/2025/08/18/p...

As a lead author of Chapter Four, Natali, project lead of @permafrostpathways.bsky.social joins 20 other experts from 16 nations to gather the best available science on land surface processes, interactions between the cryosphere, ocean, and atmosphere, and changes in carbon sinks and sources.

Research teams, including @permafrostpathways.bsky.social and collaborators, are refining tools to predict what increasing fires mean for regional and global carbon emissions and climate targets. Follow them to learn more!