Which risk increases when freeze-thaw weakens slope supports?

💡 Explanation

Increased freeze-thaw cycles cause increased permafrost degradation, triggering solifluction; this is creep deformation under saturated conditions. Saturated soil shifts downslope because of reduced shear strength, leading to increased landscape creep rates generally, rather than other climatic feedbacks.

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