Eric Holthaus is a meteorologist and contributing writer for Grist, covering climate science, policy and solutions. He has previously written for the Wall Street Journal, Slate and a variety of other publications. https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/contributor/eric-holthaus/rss en Arctic Climate Change Fri, 29 Dec 2017 03:00:00 +0000 Eric Holthaus https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2017/12/29/this-is-the-year-we-lost-the-old-arctic https://www.newsdeeply.com/oceans/articles/2017/12/29/this-is-the-year-we-lost-the-old-arctic Climate change has irreversibly changed the Arctic from its reliably frozen past. Recently, U.S. government researchers, dubbing it the ‘New Arctic,’ said there’s little chance of going back to the way things were. Fri, 11 Aug 2017 07:23:44 +0000 Eric Holthaus https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/08/11/greenland-the-land-of-ice-and-snow-hit-by-wildfire https://www.newsdeeply.com/arctic/articles/2017/08/11/greenland-the-land-of-ice-and-snow-hit-by-wildfire Scientists are not sure what to make of an unprecedented fire raging in western Greenland, but they suspect it is another sign of the impact of climate change in the Arctic.