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Posted Mon Jul 28 2008: from Kansas City Star: Researchers investigate tundra's steady awakening http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1217261040 "TOOLIK LAKE, Alaska ... Ground here that for tens of thousands of years was frozen solid is terra firma no more. Across the tundra and coast of the Arctic Ocean, land is caving in. Soils loosed by freshly thawed earth set off a new era of rot, and of bloom -- dumping a bonanza of nutrients into a top-of-the-world environment that swirls from months of midnight sun to deep-freeze dark." [Read more stories about: permafrost meltdown, arctic meltdown, ecosystem interrelationships] New!: No reader quips yet -- be the first! Got a PaniQuip? Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit): First name: The text shown in the Web image to the right: We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.

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