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• Main Authors: Ruhl, J. B., Craig, Robin K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship@Vanderbilt Law 2021
• Subjects: emission cuts; carbon budgets; accelerating ice loss; climate change; Environmental Law; Law; Arctic; Greenland; Norway; Verkhoyansk; Antarc*; Antarctica; Climate change; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/1251; https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2263&context=faculty-publications

In March 2020, while the world's attention was focused on the coronavirus pandemic, an international team of eighty-nine polar scientists from fifty organizations reported that Greenland and Antarctica are losing ice six times faster than they were in the 1990s. Based on satellite data, the res...