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The hottest day at the North Pole

On June 20, 2020, the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk — known for being one of the 19.___________(COLD) inhabited areas on the planet — hit +38ºC.

Being so far from human pollution, the top of the Earth was considered safe from climate change. But as ocean and air was pulled in contaminants from more populated places and cargo ships ventured north, the region slowly grew warmer. Between 1970 and 2019, temperatures rose about 14ºC — triple the global average.

This is the 20.___________(ONE) time, as a species, that humans 21.___________(GO) to see an ice-free Arctic in the upcoming summer months.

The Arctic is a barometer for climate change, and the pressures it's experiencing one day 22.___________(FEEL) everywhere.

Rapid evolution

New species are always evolving, just as others are going extinct. Fossils from the remnants of Paleocene oceans suggest that up near the surface the process happened at breakneck speed.

For example, in shallow waters near the coasts, existing types of snails and clams died off, but had been replaced by similar mollusks that took up the same ecological roles. Other changes were more dramatic. Triggerfish and puffer fish suffered a mass extinction, and it 23.___________(TAKE) nearly 20 million years for these swimmers to evolve enough new species to regain their lost diversity. Near the equator, corals similar to 24.___________(THAT) alive today retreated, and disk-shaped organisms filled their niche as reef builders until the seas finally cooled back down several million years later.

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