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This story is bleak.

The heat wave’s intensity and early arrival shocked many climate scientists. “It is exceptionally difficult for the Earth system to produce temperatures this warm so early in the season,” wrote Daniel Swain, a climatologist with the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources who runs the Weather West blog.

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“The state’s predator-control program violates Indigenous values and ignores the real drivers of caribou decline: climate change, habitat degradation, disease and nutritional stress,” Michelle Quillin, a Koyukon Athabascan wildlife biologist, wrote in an op-ed last year.

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