Increasing risks related to landslides from degrading permafrost into new lakes in de-glaciating mountain ranges

• Main Authors: Haeberli, Wilfried, Schaub, Yvonne, Huggel, Christian
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017
• Subjects: Institute of Geography; 910 Geography & travel; New Lakes; permafrost
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/127449/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/127449/1/2016_Haeberli%20et%20al_16a.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-127449; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.02.009

While glacier volumes inmost coldmountain ranges rapidly decrease due to continued global warming, degradation of permafrost at altitudes above and below glaciers is much slower. As a consequence,many still existing glacier and permafrost landscapes probably transformwithin decades into new landscap...