Study: Fire Hastens Permafrost Collapse in Arctic Alaska

ENN
Dec 9, 2021, 12:52 pm343 pts
While climate change is the primary driver of permafrost degradation in Arctic Alaska, a new analysis of 70 years of data reveals that tundra fires are accelerating that decline, contributing disproportionately to a phenomenon known as “thermokarst,” the abrupt collapse of ice-rich permafrost as a result of…

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