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Ominous thaw: warm patches spread in a permafrost-rich land

Sectors of unfrozen ground called taliks could become more common across Alaska by 2030.
Thermokarst lakes covering the tundra landscape along the Arctic coast in the National Petroleum Reserves, Alaska, U.S.

Lakes formed by the thawing of permafrost in Alaska. Credit: Steven Kazlowski/Nature Picture Library

Scientists have identified a process that could thaw more of Alaska’s permanently frozen ground, or permafrost, as Earth warms1.

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Nature 606, 437 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01581-7

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  1. Farquharson, L. M., Romanovsky, V. E., Kholodov, A. & Nicolsky, D. Nature Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00952-z (2022).

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