Understanding Permafrost and Its Global Distribution Permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, covers an ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

Oct. 16, 2020 — Sea floor sediments of the Arctic Ocean can reveal how permafrost responds to climate warming. Researchers have found evidence of past permafrost thawing during climate warming ...

Turetsky, INSTAAR’s director since January 2020, is bringing much-needed attention to the global consequences of thawing permafrost. The study also found that this abrupt thawing always involves ...

“Nature is full of microorganisms.” Think of permafrost, a climate change time bomb spread across Russia, Canada and Alaska that contains three times the carbon that has been emitted since the ...

For millennia, the Arctic-boreal zone has acted as a critical carbon reservoir, locking away vast amounts of carbon dioxide ...

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, a new report shows.

The authors suggest one of the main drivers of the tundra's shift from CO2 absorber to emitter could be thawing permafrost, ...