Contents: Arctic climate change and its impacts -- Rising Arctic temperatures -- Declining sea ice: a key climate change indicator -- Melting Arctic glaciers and global sea level rise -- Arctic changes impact global climate -- Climate impacts on animals and their habitats -- Climat impacts on indigenous people -- Coastal erosion and thawing permafrost -- Thawing permafrost -- Shifting vegetation zones -- Increasing fires and insect outbreaks -- Impacts of opening sea routs -- Impacts on human health -- Global climate change -- Why does the Arctic warm faster than lower latitudes -- Concluding thoughts.