As Arctic Sea Ice Retreats, Storms Take Toll on the Land by Ed Struzik: Yale Environment 360 e360.yale.edu

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As Arctic Sea Ice Retreats, Storms Take Toll on the Land by Ed Struzik: Yale Environment 360

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For millennia, the blanket of ice covering the Arctic Ocean protected the shore from damaging storms. But as that ice buffer disappears, increasingly powerful storm surges are eroding the coastline and sending walls of seawater inland, devastating Arctic ecosystems that support abundant wildlife.