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Item Arctic Climate Change Update 2024: Key Trends and Impacts: Summary for Policy Makers(2025-05-12) Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)The 2024 report provides status updates on key indicators of climate change in the Arctic along with updated findings for recurring topics such as extreme events (including wildfires) and Arctic/midlatitude linkages. It also provides new information on landscape hydrology and ocean acidification in the Arctic, which were not discussed in the 2021 report. The cryosphere chapter provides an extensive discussion of permafrost, which is an issue of growing concern for Arctic Indigenous Peoples, and other Arctic communities, and policy-makers.Item Radioactivity in the Arctic(Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, 2025-05-12) Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)This publication summarizes the AMAP Assessment 2025: Radioactivity in the Arctic assessment, capturing data and information up to December 2021. This assessment builds on the 2015 AMAP report on the subject, with updated information on trends in radioactivity in the region, progress in management of radioactive waste and decommissioning, the impacts of climate change on radioactivity, considerations relating to future sources of radioactivity in the region, and public outreach.Item Effects of plastic pollution on Arctic animals(2025-05-12) Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP)Plastic pollution is omnipresent in the Arctic, with a range of negative impacts on animals and ecosystems. Impacts of plastic pollution include entanglement of animals in nets and lines as well as the risk of starvation, internal physical damage, and physiological impacts from ingesting microplastics or larger plastic items. Potentially harmful plastic additive chemicals can leach out into the environment and can affect animals that have swallowed plastic particles.Item Human Health in the Arctic 2021 - Summary for Policymakers(Arctic Council Secretariat, 2021-05) AMAPItem 2021 AMAP Mercury Assessment - Summary for Policymakers(Arctic Council Secretariat, 2021-05) AMAP