Alaska is heating up at twice the rate of the rest of the country and a a new report shows that warming in Alaska, along with the rest of the Arctic, is accelerating as the loss of snow and ice cover begins to set off a feedback loop of further warming. This featured article describes how accelerated warming is affecting people lives and climate patterns.

Read Slate article.

Photo credit: Bear Glacier, Kenai Fjords National Park (Alaska)/National Park Service.