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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crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/dss.2015.0081 2024-03-03T08:40:29+00:00 Alaska Melting Carey, Michael 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/dss.2015.0081 en eng Project MUSE Dissent volume 62, issue 4, page 145-151 ISSN 1946-0910 General Medicine journal-article 2015 crjohnshopkinsun https://doi.org/10.1353/dss.2015.0081 2024-02-03T23:20:57Z 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Climate change Ice permafrost Alaska Johns Hopkins University Press Arctic Dissent 62 4 145 151 |
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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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