In Alaska, everyone’s grappling with climate change

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https://theconversation.com/in-alaska-everyones-grappling-with-climate-change-105032

2016’s warm winter meant not enough snow for the start of the Iditarod sled dog race in Anchorage, so it was brought by train from 360 miles north. AP/Rachel D’Oro

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  1. SNAP Coordinator, Research Faculty, University of Alaska Fairbanks

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Nancy Fresco receives climate change research funding via grants from diverse governmental and non-governmental sources, including but not limited to the US Department of Agriculture, the US National Park Service, the Government of the Northwest Territories, the US Bureau of Land Management, the Alaska Department of Transportation, and the US Department of Defense.

Coastal villages are washing into the Bering Sea, trees are sprouting in the tundra and shipping lanes are opening in an ocean that was once locked in ice. In Alaska, climate change isn’t a distant or abstract concern.

As a climate change researcher at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska…

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