Possibly an effect of thawing permafrost.

Alaska’s tundra landscapes carpet a good portion of the state, from the North Slope to the elbow of the Alaska Peninsula. Researchers say it's slowly sinking in places -- as much as a fifth of an inch each year.

Downriver from Arctic Village

Because ice makes up a good portion of the underground foundation of northern Alaska, thawing has dropped the landscape as much as 3 feet in some places.

Permafrost thaw is causing trail in Golovin to erode.

I went to gather some yesterday and there was no water to speak of; in a pond that's has been filled with water my whole life.

A new study has found permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted.