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Flaxman Island: physical features of a changing Arctic

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Photograph of Flaxman Island, Alaska, reveals physical features of a changing Arctic: collapsing bluffs, salt-killed tundra (lighter brown near the bluff edge), and drained thermokarst lakes (rust-colored depressions).

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