Tuesday, April 2, 2019

A slippery slope: How climate change is reshaping the Arctic landscape.


UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA
A collapsed block of ice-rich permafrost in Alaska.
Benjamin Jones, U.S. Geological Survey
Extremes of summer climate trigger thousands of thermokarst landslides (ones triggered by melting permafrost) in a High Arctic environment. Details here. (Includes a must-see video.)

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