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January 31st, 2007
Updated February 3, 2007 @ 1:50 pm

Climate news heats up in 2007

“With respect to global warming, 2007 is starting out with a bang,” writes Deborah Williams, of Alaska Conservation Solutions, in the January 2007 edition of Global Warming News from Alaska /Reporting from The Front Line.
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January 31st, 2007
Updated February 6, 2007 @ 9:34 pm

March Madness of Science

“The International Polar Year is like the March Madness of science,” University of Alaska Fairbanks glaciologist and sea ice researcher Hajo Eicken said during a lecture this week in
Anchorage.

“It’s like the big playoff where all the scientists get together (in cyberspace) and everybody compares notes, then people set off to make coordinated measurements.”

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