In the Arctic, landslide-like features known as mega retrogressive thaw slumps are threatening infrastructure, altering regional biogeochemistry, and emitting carbon. Sometimes eroding more than 1 ...

Thaw slumps will grow until they reach some topographical limit, usually the top of a slope or a body of water. Batagay still has a ways to go. More deals, reviews, and buying guides.

These “thaw slumps” measured several hundred feet wide and just as deep. Jaden Cockney, 17, clambered down the side of one slump as his boss, William Dillon, looked on cautiously.

A large retrogressive thaw slump on the Noatak river; the top of the slump is ~900 feet above river water level. Retrogressive thaw slumps are caused by thawing of ice-rich permafrost and ...

Alaska has thaw slumps but not nearly as many as those in Canada and Russia. Alaska also has other hillslide deformations caused by thawing permafrost, and these may contribute to climate change ...

The thaw slumps are releasing all these sediments, and they’re just changed, and they will be from now ... Keellie: Forever? Kokelj: For the foreseeable future, yeah.

In the northernmost region of the earth the arctic permafrost is melting at an accelerated rate. For more than a decade, an international team of researchers from ETH Zurich, the University of Alaska ...

There are thousands of thaw slumps across the Arctic. But the size of the Batagay "crater" has earned it the title of megaslump. It's named for the nearby town of Batagay.

- And there are several hundreds of thousands of these thaw slumps across the Arctic. It's a really huge number. You find them in North America, you find them all across Siberia.

There are thousands of thaw slumps across the Arctic. But the size of the Batagay "crater" has earned it the title of megaslump. It's named for the nearby town of Batagay.