‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle
‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle
www.theguardian.com ‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle
On Qikiqtaruk, off Canada, researchers at the frontier of climate change are seeing its rich ecology slide into the sea as the melting permafrost leaves little behind
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Yup, and it is only going to get worse as the permafrost melt relases even more methane into the atmosphere. Fuck.
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That, and the newly exposed black soil absorbs and retains heat far better than white snow and ice.
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