FAU: Researchers Map Wide Impacts Of Fire-Induced Permafrost Thaw In Alaska
February 15, 2023
February 15, 2023
BOCA RATON, Florida, Feb. 15 (TNSjou) -- Florida Atlantic University, a component of the state university system in Florida, issued the following news release:
About 40 percent of interior Alaska is underlain by ice-rich permafrost - permanently frozen grounds made up of soil, gravel and sand - bound together by ice. Certain conditions, such as climate warming, have intensified tundra wildfires which have profound implications for permafrost thaw.
Surface vegetation pla . . .
About 40 percent of interior Alaska is underlain by ice-rich permafrost - permanently frozen grounds made up of soil, gravel and sand - bound together by ice. Certain conditions, such as climate warming, have intensified tundra wildfires which have profound implications for permafrost thaw.
Surface vegetation pla . . .