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Climate change damaging US military bases in the Arctic, report warns

The Associated Press · Ellen Knickmeyer · last updated

U.S. military bases in the Arctic and sub-Arctic are failing to prepare their installations for long-term climate change as required, even though soaring temperatures and melting ice already are cracking base runways and roads and worsening flood risks up north, the Pentagon’s watchdog office said Friday.

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