Permafrost serves as an enormous carbon reservoir, containing about 1,500 billion tons of organic carbon. To put this into perspective, it holds nearly twice the carbon currently present in the ...

Arctic permafrost contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere. But the researchers found that the thawings—which expel stores of carbon dioxide sequestered deep in frozen vegetation—were not ...

The elder Zimov first figured out that permafrost stores far more carbon than scientists once thought. Some of it is now escaping as temperatures rise. Sergey Zimov, an ecologist by training ...

Both are caused by a warming global climate. But exactly how these two types of permafrost thaw affect landscapes and local communities, as well as how much additional carbon dioxide and methane they ...

Photosynthesising microbes in soil may increase their activity as temperatures rise, offsetting some of the carbon emissions ...

The dire wolf is no longer extinct. Meet the world’s first de-extinct animals. The science of de-extinction is to analyze the ...

Peatlands are "terrestrial wetland ecosystems in which waterlogged conditions prevent plant material from fully decomposing," per the International Peatland Society. They are located on every ...

Permafrost covers about 25% of the exposed land surface in the Northern Hemisphere, crucial in locking away carbon and toxic metals like mercury.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Permafrost thaw in Alaska poses significant risks to infrastructure, as warming temperatures cause ground instability. A new method using high-resolution ...