Dartmouth Arctic Mosquito Study (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth Arctic Mosquito Study (1 of 3)

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Lauren Culler, a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth's Dickey Center's Institute of Arctic Studies, and her colleagues find that warming temperatures are causing Arctic mosquitoes to grow faster and emerge earlier, significantly boosting their population and threatening the caribou they feast on.

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Lauren Culler

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