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Sculpted peat

Waves washing peat fibers eroded from arctic shores sculpt strange arches and pillars like these.
— Peat, like coal, oil, and natural gas, is a for of fossilized carbon - sequestered from the atmosphere until something exposes it to oxygen. Vast quantities of peat is being torn up and rotted away into CO2 and methane along the arctic coasts.

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Photo taken by Bretwood Higman

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By Bretwood Higman

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