The drying Arctic
Reinhard Pienitz
Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
Due to extensive permafrost melt, many arctic lakes are breached and drained, leading to widespread dry-up of lowland arctic landscapes, in this case on south-western Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Reinhard Pienitz (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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JPG
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5.9 MB
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4000 px
Height
3000 px
Aspect
4:3
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Panasonic Lumix
Exposure
14 mm f/9 1/500 s ISO 100
Taken
29 July 2005
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Light olive gray
Submitted
14 February 2013
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