An Arctic hamlet is sinking into the thawing permafrost
An Arctic hamlet is sinking into the thawing permafrost

December 7, 2024

TUKTOYAKTUK, Canada — On the shore of Lake Tiktalik in Canada’s Western Arctic, the thawing permafrost had set off two huge landslides into the water, leaving yawning craters on the tundra. These “thaw slumps” measured several hundred feet wide and just as deep.

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