Across Alaska, ponds and wetlands vital to wildlife are draining away as the underlying layer permafrost is thawing. And in the north of the ‘last frontier’, tusks of mammoth and other mammals are sticking out of once permanently frozen clay cliffs. Meanwhile, methane, a ferocious greenhouse gas far more potent than CO2, is released in ever-huger quantities due to global warming. A piece I did for the climage change expedition ‘Big Thaw’. In 2007 The Coverstory, an international press agency, sold it in South-Africa as well as Asia.
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