The ability to land a military cargo plane on a frozen Arctic lake is becoming less likely as a warming environment reduces the number of subfreezing days. That puts ice thickness below the minimum needed to support heavy aircraft.
Arctic lakes sometimes won’t reach that minimum thickness at all.
New research by University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists and others says those changes present a growing challenge for Arctic logistics and security operations that have relied on those…
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