Large sinuous rivers are slowing down in a warming Arctic

Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 March 2023; doi:10.1038/s41558-023-01620-9

Climate warming affects permafrost regions, with strong impacts on the environment such as the greening of river plains. Here the authors use satellite data to show that these changes have stabilized large Arctic sinuous rivers by slowing their lateral migration by about 20% over the past half-century.