Figures & data
Fig. 1. The Arctic is warming quickly (1, 35).
Fig. 2. The ocean streams are important and vulnerable (11, 35).
Fig. 3. The Greenland ice sheet dominates land ice in the Arctic. Over the past two decades, the melt area on the Greenland ice sheet has increased on average by about 0.7%/ year (or about 16% from 1979 to 2002) (35).
Fig. 4. The opening and closing dates for tundra travel on Alaska's north slope are rapidly changing (11, 35).
Fig. 5. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). Circumpolar levels of PCBs (μg/L maternal blood) (11).
Fig. 6. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). Circumpolar levels of the 4,4'DDE metabolite of DDT(μg/L maternal blood) (11).
Fig. 7. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP). Circumpolar levels of Mercury (μg/L maternal blood) (11).
Fig. 8. Grandmothers dilemma, also known as the Arctic dilemma: feeding the child with the very best dietary items, without knowing the contaminant content (11).
Fig. 9. The placenta is a very vulnerable organ for environmental impact, especially from smoking, infectious agents, andcontaminants. This picture is taken after a premature delivery of a very dysmature baby from a mother smoking 30 cigarettesdaily during pregnancy (Odland, private picture).
