Bigger Arctic Waves Are Messing With Clouds
The Arctic is no stranger to climate change. It’s warming nearly three times as fast as the rest of the world, and the Arctic as we knew it last century is all but gone. Among the oddest happenings, though, is the region getting wavier. Less sea ice means more open water. That alone is a weird finding. But what lands it on this list is that the bigger waves are affecting clouds. A study published earlier this year found that open water is also leading to more microscopic creatures living on the surface. The bigger waves mean those critters get kicked up into the atmosphere, where they become nuclei for water to form around and turn into ice crystals. Just one more bizarro thing for those in the Arctic to worry about.
