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TOOLIK FIELD STATION - Beyond the Arctic Circle, teams of scientists measure widening slumps as ice melts beneath the tundra. They scuff through tussocks blackened by unexpected fires, and search for fish in drought-depleted streams.
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Scientists take pulse of warming Arctic
Scientists take pulse of warming Arctic
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg / Sacramento Bee
Testing the water: Linda Deegan, a senior scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory, stands in the Kuparuk River, with the trans-Alaska oil pipeline in the background.
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