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Ancient moose antlers hint of early arrival
December 02, 2022
When a great deal of Earth's water was locked up within mountains of ice, our ancestors scampered across a dry corridor from what is today Siberia over to Alaska. Those adventurous souls may have been accompanied by another creature that needed wood -- the moose.
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Alan Alda's 2003 visit and the Alaska messengers
November 24, 2022
Alan Alda, the actor and host of PBS television's "Scientific American Frontiers," recently traveled to Alaska on a mission to interview scientists about the changing North.
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