Seawater Permafrost (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Seawater Permafrost

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Seawater drowns a landscape of elevated ridges, degrading permafrost on the Ikpikpuk River Delta in northern Alaska. By 2100, total land loss in the Arctic will exceed erosional losses by up to eight times.

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(Photo by: Benjamin M. Jones, Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska Fairbanks)

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