Sentences with phrase «increasing the surface area across»

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Since the late 1970s, permafrost temperatures across the state — including on the Seward Peninsula — have risen along with increasing air temperatures.3, 5 In fact, 22 of 24 thaw (thermokarst) ponds studied near Nome shrank over the latter half of the last century, with losses in surface area ranging from 6 to 100 percent, and averaging 55 percent.4, 8