Spring comes to the Arctic two weeks earlier, on average, than it did a decade ago thanks to global warming. Global warming affects the Earth’s poles much more strongly than it’s lower latitude regions. A study of plant flowering, insect emergence and bird egg laying shows that for some species Spring arrives as much as 30 days earlier.

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