Rural Alaska has a bridge problem as permafrost thaws and crossing river ice gets riskier with climate change
- Written by Guangqing Chi, Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Penn State
The Denali Highway as it crosses the Susitna River.Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesAmerica’s bridges are in rough shape. Of the nearly 620,000 bridges over roads, rivers and other waterways across the U.S., more than 43,500 of them, about 7%, are considered “structurally deficient.”
In Alaska,...