Global warming accelerates multi-system change in arctic river chemistry

Global warming accelerates multi-system change in arctic river chemistry

Somewhere along the northern coast of Siberia coast in the mid-1990s, Russian researchers and their international colleagues cruised through vast estuaries — where fresh and saltwater mix — on a giant icebreaker ship. Pausing along the Yenisei and Ob’ Rivers, they slipped tea-like water into test tubes — the first steps in a decades-long research project to study how Arctic river systems are changing over time. NASA estimates this is the planet’…