Devon Island, Canadian Arctic. (© Arctica: The Vanishing North by Sebastian Copeland, published by teNeues, www.teneues.com. Photo © 2015 Sebastian Copeland. All rights reserved.) Arctic sea ice shrank to its lowest level in 38 years last month, setting a record low for the month of May and setting up conditions for what could become the smallest Arctic ice extent in history, according to National Snow and Ice Data Center data released Tuesday. “We didn’t just break the old May record,...

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Carbon dioxide levels have surged past 400 parts per million for long periods of time in recent years. (NOAA) The warming influence of carbon dioxide has risen by 50 percent globally over the last two and a half decades when compared to pre-industrial levels, NOAA's 10th Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI) has found. The index compares global greenhouse gas emissions to levels prior to the Industrial Revolution, according to a NOAA news release. The global average carbon dioxide concentration for...