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• Baking in Alaska: Hot, dry weather hangs over state - Detroit Free Press

  18-06-2015 23:57
  
  KTUU.com
  Baking in Alaska: Hot, dry weather hangs over state
  Detroit Free Press
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Anyone visiting Alaska this week would be wise to pack plenty of shorts and T-shirts. The far-north state is sweltering under unusually hot, dry weather that has broken records and intensified conditions fueling two large wildfires.
  Can we call this a heat wave? In Alaska, the rules are differentKTUU.comall 4 news articles »
  
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• Healy Lake Fire Doubles In Size - Alaska Public Radio Network

  18-06-2015 23:45
  
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Healy Lake Fire Doubles In Size
  Alaska Public Radio Network
  Several wildfires are burning in the interior, including a growing blaze east of Delta Junction. Division of Forestry spokesman Tim Mowry says the Healy Lake fire made a major push west toward Delta beginning late Wednesday night and at least doubled ...and more »
  
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• Alaska glaciers sending 75 billion tons of water into sea each year - CBS News

  18-06-2015 12:04
  
  CBS News
  Alaska glaciers sending 75 billion tons of water into sea each year
  CBS News
  Glaciers in Alaska often get second billing to the mountains of ice in the Himalayas or those in Patagonia. But a new study out Wednesday suggests these glaciers are suffering the same fate as their more famous brethren and are already punching far ...
  Study: Alaska's melting mountain glaciers have big impact on sea level riseAlaska Dispatch News
  Alaska's glaciers are now losing 75 billion tons of ice
  
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• Alaska gets help from lower 48 states in fighting wildfires - U.S. News & World Report

  18-06-2015 10:43
  
  U.S. News & World Report
  Alaska gets help from lower 48 states in fighting wildfires
  U.S. News & World Report
  A structure on Slough Avenue burns after the Card Street wildfire burned through the Kenai Key subdivision in Sterling, Alaska on Wednesday, June 17, 2015. The wildfire moved rapidly northeast toward the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge and authorities ...
  Canadian firefighters arrive to aid in Alaska wildfiresUPI.com
  Baked Alaska: State swelters in unusually hot temperaturesFairbank
  
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