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Mercury in Arctic soil

PACIFIC OCEAN

OKHOTSK SEA

BERING SEA

Alaska (USA)

CANADA

BEAUFORT SEA

RUSSIA

BANKS ISLAND

VICTORIA ISLAND

TAIMYR PENINSULA

HUDSON BAY

ELLESMERE ISLAND

ARCTIC OCEAN

BAFFIN ISLAND

Novaya Zemlya (Russia)

Svalbard (Norway)

BAFFIN BAY

LABRADOR

Greenland (Denmark)

NORWEGIAN SEA

ICELAND

FINLAND

SWEDEN

ATLANTIC OCEAN

NORWAY

Mercury in the soil from 0 to 300 cm mg Hg/m 2 5 to 20 20 to 80

80 to 150

More than 150

Projected permafrost extent in 2100 according to Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios from the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

RCP 4.5

RCP 8.5

Current extent of permafrost

30

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