The Christian Science Monitor reports on Alaska, where global warming and its consequences are being felt now.Alaska's glaciers are melting at double the amounts just 10 years ago and melting ice is raising sea levels almost double to that of Greenland's.
Milder winters are also allowing insects such as the spruce bark beetle to survive and decimate native spruce trees.
Other problems include changing wetlands:
"Now shrubs and trees are encroaching on what has been a peat moss-dominated bog. Cores taken show no evidence of woody plants until the top, or recent decades. Their arrival implies a drying-out, [says Ed Berg, an ecologist with the US Department of Fish and Wildlife]."Read the full story: Alaska: climate-change frontier
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