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Observing the scars of the Arctic thaw

Ecologist Breck Bowden talks about the consequences of thawing permafrost in Alaska.

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Jane Qiu is a recipient of the Marine Biological Laboratory's Logan Science Journalism Fellowship, which is partly funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Qiu, J. Observing the scars of the Arctic thaw. Nature (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2009.609

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