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Looking into Earth’s past — The Batagaika crater in Siberia

The Batagaika crater is a thermokarst depression in the East Siberian taiga, in the Sakha Republic in Russia. The crater began to form after...

Karen GrahamMarch 1, 2017

World

Climate-driven Arctic permafrost collapse causing dramatic change

A study published in February 2017, in the journal Geology, titled “Climate-driven thaw of permafrost-preserved glacial landscapes, northwestern Canada,” describes the research efforts and...

Karen GrahamFebruary 28, 2017

World

Warming temperatures cause Canadian lake to fall off cliff

The video of the event was released last Wednesday by the government of the NWT, showing how the lake collapsed into a valley below,...

Karen GrahamDecember 21, 2015