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Thawing permafrost driven by a hidden world of changes beneath the surface as the climate warms

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2022-04-13

Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in the span of a few days. Hillsides slump. Ice-rich ground collapses, leaving the landscape wavy where it once was flat, and in some locations creating vast fields of large, sunken polygons.

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https://phys.org/news/2022-04-permafrost-driven-hidden-world-beneath.html