Permafrost landscape at sunset
by Reinhard Pienitz, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
Due to rapid permafrost melt, the arctic tundra landscape breaks/splits open and quickly collapses, as seen here on southern Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Taken on 29
July
2005
Submitted on 14 February 2013
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