Arctic climate science ‘broken’ as US, Europe isolate Russia

Danielle Bochove

WORLD

Bloomberg

Irina Panyushkina is a dendrochronologist — a scientist who studies treering dating to understand past environmental conditions — at the University of Arizona. In early 2022, she was planning to do summer fieldwork in Siberia, for her research on the links between climate change, Russia’s freshwater systems and Arctic ice formation. Her work had already been delayed years by COVID-19.

Then Russia invaded Ukraine, and it slammed to a halt again.

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