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These Ice Cellars Fed Arctic People for Generations. Now They're Melting
2015-10-30 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Building an underground ice cellar to store bowhead whale and other meat in Barrow, Alaska, is no small task. Even in the summertime, permafrost is hard as a rock a foot or so below the surface. Last year Herman Ahsoak employed a jackhammer and drill to construct a cellar for the whaling crew he has captained for more than a decade. But in the spring, melting snow penetrated the hatch, and the 14-foot deep cellar "filled all the way to the top with water," Ahsoak says. Maintaining ice cellars...
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