Alaska's Brooks Range (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Alaska's Brooks Range

Caption

The Salmon River in Alaska now runs a rusty orange thanks to metal contaminants unleashed by thawing permafrost. 

Credit

Taylor Rhoades

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