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A person looks out on a collapsed block of ice-rich permafrost along Alaska's Arctic coast. Photo Credit: Christopher Arp, USGS.
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  A person looks out on a collapsed block of ice-rich permafrost along Alaska's Arctic coast. Photo Credit: Christopher Arp, USGS.