Climate change has transformed much of Alaska over the past three decades

Climate change disproportionately impacts the Arctic, where rising global temperatures wrought by the burnng of fossil fuels have brought rapid, fundamental changes to places like Alaska. In a new study published in Global Change Biology, researchers conclude that 67,000 square miles of land in Alaska, thirteen percent of the total, have been affected over the past three decades by what the study calls 'directional change,' in which a location has experienced fundamental change in its ecology from...

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