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Alaska Science Forum

Weekly column in cooperation with the UAF research community.

Last week, I sent out a story on changes in Alaska over the past few million years.

With its melting glaciers, thawing permafrost, and floating sea ice that gets tougher to see from its northern shores each summer, Alaska is the poster state for global warming.

POKER FLAT RESEARCH RANGE — After 35 years of driving to work over a small mountain each day, Kathe Rich will soon make her last daily ascent of Cleary Summit.

American robins have returned to northern Alaska.

A Fairbanks biologist recently cupped in his hand a tiny bird whose arrival he had been rooting for.

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