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$A Landsat image of Russia’s Chukchi Peninsula shows a narrow coastal sandspit separating the Arctic Ocean from a chain of elongated, ice-covered coastal lagoons near the village of Billings and Cape Billings. The pale blue lagoons vary in size and line up end-to-end, creating a shape that resembles a snowman pressed against the shoreline. Offshore, fractured sea ice forms a bright, textured band along the coast, while darker tundra and thermokarst lakes extend inland.$

17 December 2025

Icons of winter are sometimes found in unexpected places. In one striking example, a series of oval lagoons…