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Alaska’s permafrost threatened by intense fires, climate change

‘FAIRBANKS, Alaska – One of the state’s worst wildfire seasons in history has scorched 5 million acres of tundra and forests across Alaska, and experts here fear climate change will cause even more devastating fires through a combination of lower snowpack, drying tundra and melting permafrost.’

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