An Arctic Hamlet is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost

silence7@slrpnk.net · 25 days ago

An Arctic Hamlet is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost | Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when.

AA5B@lemmy.world · 25 days ago

Wow that’s a much different picture than I expected …… I assume permafrost melting means ground gets soggy so you need some sort of foundation rework, including on roads. However the article focussed on “slumps” which seem like landslides under a different name. If your town was built on a frozen swamp, you could probably build on posts or something. However if your town slides into the ocean, you can’t really recover

silence7@slrpnk.net · 25 days ago

Yeah, inland areas transition to a thermokarst landscape, while places next to the ocean can just disappear entirely.

An Arctic Hamlet is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost | Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when.

An Arctic Hamlet is Sinking Into the Thawing Permafrost | Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when.