Miriam Jones Climate Change Images

page last updated: 16 March 2011

These photos show a variety of terrain in the arctic tundra that is undergoing change.

Small, dead spruce trees with no needles lean at a 20 degree angle towards the spongy mossy ground.

Drunken trees in a black spruce forest near Fairbanks, Alaska. As permafrost thaws, the ground subsides, and surface moisture conditions can become too wet for the trees to survive.

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An open field covers most of the ground in this photo. A line of trees is in the distance. The sky is dark and cloudy with the exception of a rainbow.

Rainbow over a peatland in the Susitna Valley, just to the south of the Alaska Range.

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A person stands on a distant berm above a placid pond. Green grass indicates a warm season.

Permafrost degradation on the southern Seward Peninsula. The lake formed as a previously frozen ice wedge thawed.

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The wooded ground is interrupted by a soft grassy clearing.

Collapse scar fen near Fairbanks formed when permafrost thawed, the ground subsided, and surface moisture conditions increased.

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An eroded exposed section of the ground shows a rooty vegetation layer above frozen, muddy looking soil below.

Peat overlying an ice wedge that is exposed as a result of permafrost thaw.

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An open stretch of ground recedes into the distance, between a notch in two hills. Near the ground a low rainbow stretches across the frame, just below larger hills in the far distance.

Rainbow on the southern Seward Peninsula.

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Aerial view of tundra with scattered flodded areas. The vegetation color ranges from dark green to light brown.

Thermokarst lakes in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.

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An exposed piece of ground reveals a large bit of underground ice. The ice is dirty, wet and slimy looking.

Massive ice wedge on near Cape Espenberg.

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