Contact: Sandra Hines
shines@uw.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington

High Lake, Alaska

Caption: The chemical fingerprint of nitrogen pollution has been recorded for more than a century in High Lake, Southwest Alaska, and 24 other remote lakes in the Northern Hemisphere.

Credit: Patrick Walsh/ US Fish and Wildlife Service

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