Alaska Melting

Alaska is frequently at the center of national and international climate change discussions. It is the only U.S. state that lies partially in the Arctic, where so much global climate change has been recorded. It is the only state with indigenous people who live in the Arctic and who harvest fish and...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Dissent
Main Author: Carey, Michael
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Project MUSE 2015
Subjects:
General Medicine
Arctic
Climate change
Ice
permafrost
Alaska
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dss.2015.0081
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Summary:Alaska is frequently at the center of national and international climate change discussions. It is the only U.S. state that lies partially in the Arctic, where so much global climate change has been recorded. It is the only state with indigenous people who live in the Arctic and who harvest fish and game from Arctic waters and lands. It is the only state with thousands of square miles of permafrost—permanently frozen dirt mixed with ice under the ground cover that on the arctic coastal plain can extend 2,000 feet below the surface.

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