The 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.

Alaska’s coast is drifting into the sea at twice the rate it has in the past, reshaping the Arctic shoreline, a new study says.
The trend could seriously threaten the area’s caribou and other wildlife, as well as local landmarks that document human settlements.
Some stretches of the state’s northern shore along the Beaufort Sea receded [...]