Arctic warming disrupts ecosystems, threatens fish populations, endangers coastal cities with rising sea levels, releases pathogens, and intensifies extreme weather disasters worldwide.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (an agency that is subject to drastic cuts in Trump's FY2026 budget) from October 2024 to September 2025 temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, As of year-end, the status of the Arctic and Greenland present the world with a nerve-racking knuckle-biting dilemma, as apparently, according to climate scientists, they're coming apart at the seams.