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ArticleBody:In a remote area of the Siberian tundra, dotted with low trees and shrubs, there’s a place that locals call ‘The Gateway to Hell.’ During the summertime, the sound of water pouring over the cliff sides is interrupted every so often by the boom and crash of falling earth. “It’s quite noisy” says Julian Murton, a geologist at the University of Sussex in England who has visited the site as part of his research.
Credit: JAXA and ESA “Our results demonstrate how quickly permafrost degradation occurs… how dynamically the landforms in permafrost areas change,” Alexander Kizyakov, lead study author and a glaciologist at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia, tells Popular Science in an email. Kizyakov and his co-authors used remote sensing techniques, drone images, and soil and ice cores to come to their comprehensive and up-to-date estimates.
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