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CORRECTED-Ice melt to close off Arctic's interior riches-study - AlertNet

WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - Global warming will likely open up coastal areas in the Arctic to development but close vast regions of the northern interior to forestry and mining by mid-century as ice and frozen soil under temporary winter roads melt, researchers said.
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"It's a resource frontier where we don't even know what all is there and I'm beginning to think we never will," Laurence Smith, a professor of geography at the University of California Los Angeles and a co-author of the study, said about the Arctic interior.

"These places are going to become wilder and the lands are going to be abandoned and revert to a wild state."