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
  • @FollyDolly
    16•3 months ago

    Yup, and it is only going to get worse as the permafrost melt relases even more methane into the atmosphere. Fuck.

    • @disguy_ovahea
      13•3 months ago

      That, and the newly exposed black soil absorbs and retains heat far better than white snow and ice.