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Britannica: polar ecosystem
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The tiny algae at ground zero of Greenland's melting glaciers
Greenland’s melting ice sheet is disrupting fjord and coastal ecosystems
Why are glaciers and sea ice melting?
Glacier melting in Greenland: Impact on marine ecosystem and society
Greenland's melt goes into hyper-drive with unprecedented ice loss in modern times
Six ways loss of Arctic ice impacts everyone
How disappearing sea ice has put Arctic ecosystem under threat
Impacts at the ecosystem level: damaging the Arctic web of life
Britannica: temperate forest
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Deforestation front: Eastern Australia
Australia's wildfires burned 21 percent of the country's temperate forests
Global analysis shows unprecedented scale of Australian summer of fire
Global Forest Watch: China fires
North Asian Deciduous Forest Biome
Chinese Deforestation and Lessons from its Conservation Efforts
Britannica: Inland water ecosystem
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Britannica: Aral Sea physiographic changes
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World of Change: Shrinking Aral Sea
Aral Sea Disaster: Why One of the Biggest Inland Seas Dried Up
“Louder than Words”: A Profile of the Destruction of the Aral Sea and Its Consequences
Health and Ecological Consequences of the Aral Sea Crisis
Britannica: tundra ecosystem
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How Thawing Permafrost Is Beginning to Transform the Arctic
Driven by climate change, thawing permafrost is radically changing the Arctic landscape
Permafrost: Everything You Need to Know
How Much Worse Will Thawing Arctic Permafrost Make Climate Change?
Thawing Permafrost Could Leach Microbes, Chemicals Into Environment
If you’re not thinking about the climate impacts of thawing permafrost, (here’s why) you should be
Britannica: grassland
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Nearly 1.8 million acres of grassland destroyed in US and Canada in 2020
Grasslands in US Great Plains are being destroyed at “alarming rate”
America’s native grasslands are disappearing
Grassland degradation in dire need of restoration
Getting African grasslands right, for people and wildlife alike: Q&A with Susanne Vetter
Africa’s great savannahs may be more endangered than the world’s rainforests
Don't Convert Africa's Savanna to Agricultural Land
Britannica: rainforest ecosystem
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Amazon mining
The Impact Of Mining On The Brazilian Amazon
Mining activity causing nearly 10 percent of Amazon deforestation
Amazon destruction
Revealed: rampant deforestation of Amazon driven by global greed for meat
Agribusiness giant again linked to Amazon deforestation
Razing the land to feed massive timber hunger
Why is the Amazon rainforest disappearing?
Brazil is failing to stop illegal logging of the Amazon
Human activity and drought ‘degrading more than a third of Amazon rainforest’
Britannica: taiga (boreal forest)
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Eye on the Taiga - Russia’s Green Lung in Distress
Russia’s Boreal Forests
Illegal Logging in the Russian Far East: Global Demand and Taiga Destruction
Taiga King
In Russia’s wild forests a good map helps everyone see the wood for the trees
Britannica: desert
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Britannica: desertification
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Study finds Australian drylands are vulnerable to the negative impact of overgrazing
Desertification and Drought in Australia
The challenge of 'farming the desert' in Australia
What is desertification? Discover its causes and consequences
U.S. scientists work to stave off desertification
The Drying U.S. West
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