This phenomenon, called Arctic amplification, occurs as highly reflective Arctic ice and snow melt away, allowing dark land and exposed ocean to absorb more sunlight.

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If you are a wrathful god, you will create a dark, unfriendly land and a vicious creature.

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This is also the land of the deep, dark woods that Little Red Riding Hood skipped through, the land of towers tall enough for Rapunzel, and charming chocolate-box houses to tempt Hansel and Gretel.

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My candles are burning all over this land, light the dark road for the man passing by.

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The sequence of woodland vistas, the revelations of scale and distance, light and dark, building and nature, land and water, as one approaches the entrance, were superbly orchestrated by Wright.

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Aerial photographs from the descent show drainage channels apparently flowing off land into what seems to be a dark ocean, possibly composed of some tarry substance.

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Dark air like demonic possession, a sharp path cut across the land by meteorological shears.

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