Alaska: Warming is Disturbing Preview of What's to Come, Scientists Say

by Seth Borenstein, Knight Ridder Newspapers
July 31st, 2003

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska is melting.

Glaciers are receding. Permafrost is thawing. Roads are collapsing. Forests are dying. Villages are being forced to move, and animals are being forced to seek new habitats.

What's happening in Alaska is a preview of what people farther south can expect, said Robert Corell, a former top National Science Foundation scientist who heads research for the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment team.

>"If you want to see what will be happening in the rest of the world 25 years from now, just look at what's happening in the Arctic," Corell said.