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Environment & Energy

Speck Tater

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4. And again...

Reply to XemaSab (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 7, 2012, 01:29 PM

Sep 2012

But the research is in its earliest stages. For science, the Arctic itself is hard to decipher. The effects of its rapid melt are even tougher.

And again, the pace of research is falling behind the pace of climate change. At this rate the first published papers about how to save the arctic won't appear in the journals until years after it's already too late.

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