Katey Walter Anthony on Arctic Lakes

There are literally millions of “thermokarst” lakes that form and reform as arctic permafrost changes over time. I talked to Dr Katey Walter Anthony of University of Alaska-Fairbanks on what that meant in the past, and implications for the future.

Bottom to top schematic of evolution of Thermokarst lakes, from Freie Universität Berlin

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