Study of Northern Alaska Could Rewrite Arctic history

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Study of Northern Alaska Could Rewrite Arctic history

  HANOVER, N.H. – Parts of Alaska’s mountainous Brooks Range were likely transported from Greenland and a stretch of the Canadian Arctic much farther to the east, according to a series of Dartmouth-led studies detailing over 300 million years of Arctic geologic history. The finding updates the geological evolution of the Arctic Ocean and could […]

A Slippery Slope: How Climate Change is Reshaping the Arctic Landscape

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A Slippery Slope: How Climate Change is Reshaping the Arctic Landscape

 Increasing ground temperatures in the Arctic are indicators of global climate change, but until recently, areas of cold permafrost were thought to be relatively immune to severe impacts. A new study by Antoni Lewkowicz, a professor in the Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Ottawa and published in the journal […]