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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...

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Shifting 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...

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The 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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Fire and Ice

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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