“New Arctic” Is a Dream Meltdown
![Inukshuks near Baffin Bay (Wikimedia Commons) Inukshuks near Baffin Bay (Wikimedia Commons)](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/images/blog/inukshuk.jpg?itok=vz_AUjY4)
I went to the North Pole in April, the favored month for travel in the High Arctic. That was 16 years ago. According to the 2017 National Climate Assessment, the region’s warming began accelerating around the time of my visit. It is no longer the same frozen ecology and economy I had seen.