arctic
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Buoyed by a youthful sense of invincibility, they dared one another to leap, waiting for another to move, like emperor penguin chicks before a first arctic plunge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
"These landscapes are changing fast, and arctic and alpine glaciers might be some of the first habitats lost completely to climate change," she said.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
But temperatures in Florida will remain below normal and a surge of arctic air will blow across the Great Lakes and into parts of the Midwest by Tuesday and Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
It was also the biggest one-week percentage jump on record, driven by an arctic blast that brought dangerous cold, heavy snow and ice and disrupted travel in much of the central and eastern U.S..
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
But as soon as he heard mention of an arctic hare, he rushed up and down all the burrow tunnels in search of Twitch, whom he of course could not find.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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