Melting permafrost: Climate effects
Melting permafrost: Water pours off a melting permafrost bluff on the Chukchi Coast in Alaska. Photo: Groundtruthtrekking.org / CC A NC Soils from the northern circumpolar permafrost zone contain...
View ArticleShifting sands – living on permafrost
Gold Rush Buildings, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. © Terry Feuerborn / CC BY NC 2 via flickr BRONWYN BENKERT is a research project coordinator with the Northern Climate ExChange, Yukon Research...
View ArticleThe tipping point
Thermokarst. Source: Page21.eu Permafrost carbon feedback represents a very slow, but irreversible climatic tipping point. Permafrost will thaw slowly over many years, but once it thaws, you cannot...
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Firefighter at edge of forest and shaded fuelbreak, Alaska. © Alaska Region USFWS Climate change is one of the most substantial and widespread environmental phenomena of our immediate future, with the...
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