From the air, Wainwright, Alaska, looks like a perfectly stable band of homes and roads between the Chukchi Sea and a vast, flat tundra. But just below the surface, the frozen ground on which this town was built contains large bodies of ice.
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September 29, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Arctic infrastructure was built on frozen ground—drones and digital twins can help spot the permafrost thaw coming
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