Robert Sanscartier<p>“I’m just waiting to start hearing methane explosions like they do in Russia,” says Bethel, Alaska, City Council Member Mark Springer. Until recently he & his wife would pick summer berries on a trail through the tundra outside their river town in southwest Alaska, but now that part of the tundra is too dangerous to traverse since water-filled sinkholes have formed with surface slicks of volatile methane</p><p><a href="https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/12/26/opinion/alaska-is-a-climate-victim-and-a-perpetrator-the-next-four-years-will-only-make-matters-worse/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/</span><span class="invisible">12/26/opinion/alaska-is-a-climate-victim-and-a-perpetrator-the-next-four-years-will-only-make-matters-worse/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bethel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bethel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Alaska" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alaska</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a></p>