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An oil giant backs a high-tech rescue for collapsing Arctic ice cellars in Alaska

Traditional permafrost cellars on Alaska's North Slope are failing. Money and technology from Exxon is helping keeping the tradition going.

By Gregory Scruggs, Thomson Reuters Foundation January 29, 2019
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KAKTOVIK, Alaska — When Inupiaq hunters wrestle a 100-ton bowhead whale back to land from the high seas, the next challenge is where to store all that meat.

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