Sunday 10 January 2016

Increased occurrence of landslips

Sunday, March 1, 2015 (Sunday Chronicle, PNG)



Caption: Office of Climate Change Executive Director Varigini Badira pointing at the increased occurrence of landslips along the Daulo Pass road along the Okuk Highway, Eastern highlands- where changing climate patterns have caused the permafrost (top frozen soil layer) that is structurally important to melt causing erosion, disappearance of lakes, landslides, and ground subsidence (Picture by Matthew Vari).

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