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Pollution prevention
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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