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As Warming Alters Alaska, Can a Key Wildlife Refuge Adapt?

As Warming Alters Alaska, Can a Key Wildlife Refuge Adapt?

[ad_1] A few hours’ drive south of Anchorage, the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge is an Alaska in miniature. Larger than the state of Delaware, the refuge’s expanse includes snow-capped mountains, forests, lakes, vast wetland networks, and glacier-fed salmon streams that provide habitat to all of the state’s charismatic megafauna: grizzlies, …

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Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming

Why Clouds Are the Key to New Troubling Projections on Warming

[ad_1] Recent climate models project that a doubling of atmospheric CO2 above pre-industrial levels could cause temperatures to soar far above previous estimates. A warming earth, researchers now say, will lead to a loss of clouds, allowing more solar energy to strike the planet. It is the most worrying development …

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