Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

  • Jan Hjort,
  • Olli Karjalainen,
  • Juha Aalto,
  • Sebastian Westermann,
  • Vladimir E. Romanovsky,
  • Frederick E. Nelson,
  • Bernd Etzelmüller,
  • Miska Luoto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07557-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Permafrost thaw poses a serious threat to the sustainable development of Arctic communities. Here the authors show that most fundamental Arctic infrastructure and population will be at high hazard risk, even if the Paris Agreement target is achieved.