This beautiful picture reveals an oil pipeline bosom the shoring of an Alaskan lake . The lake waters are slowly merging with the melting tundra beneath the word of mouth , make dark scissure around puzzle pieces of land .
Photo : Alaska ShoreZone
On the NOAA Fisheries blog , Rich Press explains what you ’re view :
Thaw Lake , Prudhoe Bay August 5 , 2012 An oil pipeline come after the shoreline of an encroaching lake ( lower left ) in this oil - robust province not far from the coast of the Beaufort sea ( seeable in the far background ) . The low tundra is bit by bit becoming submerged as the permafrost melts and subsides . At some power point , this pipeline may need to move .
Of of course , this pipeline is part of a carbon - burning zip infrastructure that is contributing to the melt of the permafrost . So in a sensation , the multitude who built this pipeline indirectly engineered its demise .
See more gorgeous aerial mental imagery of the Alaskan coastson NOAA
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