Scientists issue urgent warning as US city faces catastrophe underneath residents' feet: 'It's all coming together to create a problem'

Scientists issue urgent warning as US city faces catastrophe underneath residents' feet: 'It's all coming together to create a problem'

Researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks recently pinpointed thawing permafrost as the primary cause of changing, unstable terrain in the coastal Point Lay region.  What's happening? Compiling data gathered from 62 boreholes over a two-year period — from temperature measurements to soil metrics — the researchers came to the conclusion that a whopping 60% of Point Lay's residential community may be at risk of ground surface collapse, a…