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Rivers May Be Accelerating Permafrost Thaw Faster Than Expected, Researchers Find
Using distributed acoustic sensing on a telecom cable in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, researchers found river-driven warming may speed permafrost thaw progression by about 15% compared with conventional models.
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- Researchers used an existing telecom cable as a dense seismic sensing array.
- They found a thicker-than-expected active layer beneath rivers.
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