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20 May 2019 / Washington Post / Juliet Eilperin
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Nuiqsut, Alaska, United States

The varnished wooden cross stands amid a cluster of grave markers tilted at odd angles in the cemetery, because the ground beneath them is sinking. Rising temperatures are thawing the once-frozen earth, forming pools of water that run through the graveyard.


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Water surrounds the graves at the cemetery in Nuiqsut, Alaska, in May. Rising temperatures are thawing the once-frozen earth.
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