Localized thawing of permafrost, especially in villages where ... scientists documented a 60-fold increase in massive ground slumps from 1984 to 2013. It topples forests. Merritt Turetsky, an ...

The irony is that this precious equipment is there to measure the very cause of its demise: Abrupt permafrost thaw, where the ice-rich permafrost beneath these Northern landscapes—frozen solid for ...

The team of researchers explored caves in Canada to look for clues left in speleothemsmineral deposits accumulated over thousands of years—that might help answer when in the past did Canadian ...

soils turn to quicksand and thaw slumps (a type of landslide) must be avoided. In Longyearbyen on Svalbard, the thawing of the permafrost also threatens access to clean drinking water, as the dam ...

Permafrost — the permanently frozen ground that underlies much of the Arctic land surface — is thawing in many parts of the Arctic. [1] As permafrost thaws, it releases the powerful greenhouse gas ...

65, No. S1, SPECIAL ISSUE: Linking Metagenomics to Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemical Cycles (January 2020), pp. S248-S263 (16 pages) Warming climate is thawing the permafrost in arctic and ...

Thawing permafrost not only poses a global threat through the release of greenhouse gases, but is also expected to have far-reaching implications for about 3 million Arctic inhabitants who live in ...

This makes the thawing permafrost a ticking time bomb, with the potential to exacerbate global warming at a much faster rate. The term "carbon bomb" conjures images of explosive power and urgency ...

As our planet continues to warm, the permafrost thaws and the Earth "loosens and slumps". The Siberian collapse ... per year due to permafrost thaw. The collapsed section of the hillside, which ...

but factors such as glacial retreat and permafrost thawing may ‘lift the lid’ on this in the future,” explains Dr Thomas Birchall, lead author of the study and researcher at the University ...

The tunnel’s permafrost, defined as any ground or soil that remains frozen for at least two years straight, is used by scientists to study questions ranging from how thawing microbes trapped in ...

“There are many, many factors that came together here,” the study’s lead author tells Carbon Brief, but the “main driver” was the destabilising effect caused by thawing permafrost. The research also ...