Alaska Coast Eroding Fast
Sep 25th, 2009 | By Rebecca | Category: Featured Articles, NewsThe Beaufort Sea’s coastline is disintegrating at alarming speed.
Permafrost cliffs are tumbling into the ocean and melting away, and now the process is caught on a new video of time-lapse photographs.
“It could be related to some of the changes that are happening and that have been reported in the Arctic, like declining sea ice in the summer and increasing sea temperatures,” says a scientist studying the coast.
