Thawing Permafrost

Permafrost Thaw in a Warming World - The Arctic Institute

The Arctic Institute's new two-part series examines permafrost thaw from different perspectives in an effort to understand and contextualize this complex ...

Thawing permafrost - WWF Arctic Programme

As the Arctic warms, permafrost is beginning to thaw. As it thaws, it decomposes and emits carbon, amplifying the climate change that is causing it to melt in ...

Thawing permafrost: what does it mean? And what can be done?

As the global climate warms up, this permafrost thaws and releases, in addition to carbon dioxide, methane, a potent if short-lived greenhouse ...

If you're not thinking about the climate impacts of thawing permafrost ...

“There's so much carbon stored in permafrost, and it's frozen now. It's locked away, and when that thaws, it then becomes vulnerable for being ...

Thawing Permafrost Could Leach Microbes, Chemicals Into ...

Then there is thawing permafrost's effect on the planet's carbon: Arctic permafrost alone holds an estimated 1,700 billion metric tons of carbon ...

Permafrost - Wikipedia

Depending on conditions at the time of thaw, decomposition can release either carbon dioxide or methane, and these greenhouse gas emissions act as a climate ...

Why Frozen Ground Matters | National Snow and Ice Data Center

If it thaws, microbial activity will lead to a release of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and methane, to the atmosphere. As of 2020, estimates ...

Permafrost | MIT Climate Portal

This warmer air temperature is, in turn, heating up the ground and thawing the top layer of permafrost. Climate change is also affecting parts ...

How Thawing Permafrost Is Beginning to Transform the Arctic

This thawing, which could release vast amounts of greenhouse gases, is already changing the Arctic landscape by causing landslides, draining lakes, and ...

Thawing permafrost - Arctic Council

Thawing permafrost disrupts transportation and affects buildings and infrastructure such as pipelines, airports, and industrial facilities.

Permafrost: Everything You Need to Know - NRDC

When the earth remains frozen for at least two consecutive years, it's called permafrost. If the ground freezes and thaws every year, it's ...

Thawing permafrost poses environmental threat to thousands of ...

Here we identify about 4500 industrial sites where potentially hazardous substances are actively handled or stored in the permafrost-dominated regions of the ...

Climate Change Indicators: Permafrost | US EPA

A thawing permafrost layer can lead to severe impacts on people and the environment. For instance, as ice-filled permafrost thaws, it can ...

What Is Permafrost? - NASA Climate Kids

This process releases greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere. When permafrost thaws, so do ancient bacteria and viruses in the ice ...

Melting permafrost: why is it a serious threat to the planet? - Iberdrola

This permanently frozen layer will melt and release giga-tonnes of gases, such as carbon and methane, as well as ancient viruses and bacteria.

What Lies Beneath Melting Glaciers and Thawing Permafrost?

As the ice melts, it's exposing new surfaces, new opportunities, and new threats — including valuable mineral deposits, archaeological relics, ...

Thawing permafrost - Center for Biological Diversity

Permafrost plays an essential role in the Arctic ecosystem by making the ground watertight and maintaining the vast network of wetlands and lakes across the ...

Climate Change and Geopolitics: Monitoring of a Thawing Permafrost

The abrupt melting of permafrost is leading to erosion, landslides and craters in the Arctic landscape. As a result, unstable ground threatens ...

ESA - Permafrost thaw: it's complicated - European Space Agency

One of the many serious consequences of the climate crisis is that precious permafrost is thawing, and this is unleashing even more carbon ...

Driven by climate change, thawing permafrost is radically ... - PBS

It's evidence that permafrost, the long-frozen soil below the surface, is thawing. That's bad news for the communities built above it – and for the global ...