New study uncovers why the Arctic’s rivers are rusting

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Source: Tim Lyons/UCR

Scientists have identified the two biggest reasons that once-pristine rivers across the Arctic are growing cloudy with toxic orange iron particles that smother insects and suffocate fish. As the climate warms, a layer of Arctic soil that had been frozen for millennia has begun to thaw. 

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