Qikiqtaruk Island's Permafrost Melting
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•‘The land is tearing itself apart’: life on a collapsing Arctic isle
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Qikiqtaruk is a mass of sediment and permafrost piled up during the last ice age.
Island is packed with immense ecological richness, with waters teeming with beluga whales and trout-like Dolly Varden char.
It is one of the few places on Earth where black, grizzly and polar bears cross paths.
The tundra is greening’ at an incredible rate as shrubs push north and grow taller.
But a lush, greening Arctic will come at a cost: upending the lives of animals that rely on seasonal rhythm and predictability.
Herds of caribou are among the most likely casualties, as bare spots favoured by lichen that they like to eat, are overtaken by shrubs.
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