The pristine Artcic

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kbs2244
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The pristine Artcic

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From today’s news page
This is in Canada so I guess it is New World even though it is pretty close to the Old World.

http://alaskareport.com/news98/x61654_w ... alaska.htm

"It's ironic," Smol said. "We tend to think of the high arctic as pristine, and I think we now have one of the oldest records of human impact on an aquatic ecosystem."

Blasted humans!
They are everywhere.
And messing thing up.
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