Alaska’s Arctic coastal towns face extensive inundation

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Alaska’s Arctic coastal towns face extensive inundation

Alaska's Arctic coastal towns are facing permafrost melt and eventually inundation by seawater. Coastal erosion and land subsidence driven by permafrost thawing may lead to extensive seawater inundation
More at https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=304296&WT.mc_id=USNSF_1


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