As permafrost – ground that is frozen year-round – melts, it releases carbon and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Current modeling for this is based on an expectation that permafost ...

“Permafrost isn’t a problem of the future. It’s thawing now and has been for decades,” said John Holdren, Teresa & John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy ...

When permafrost thaws under a lake, microbes decompose organic material and convert it to methane. Anthony is known for cutting holes in the ice and lighting the gas. When permafrost thaws under a ...

Melting permafrost cliffs near Zyryanka, Russia are crumbling into the Kolyma River, unleashing tons of organic soil sediments that can release CO2 and methane to the atmosphere.

The thawing of the permafrost due to climate change may expose a vast store of ancient viruses, according to a team of European researchers, who say they have found 13 previously unknown pathogens ...

Ground slumping in yedoma permafrost after a wildfire, in the interior of Alaska. Yedoma permafrost generally contains large ...

Permafrost, seen at the top of the cliff, melts into the Kolyma River outside of Zyryanka, Russia, in July 2019. A new study has found that methane is being released not only from thawing wetlands ...

Permafrost is one of the weirder concoctions of the Earth’s ice ages. In the abstract, it sounds like a simple substance—any earth material that stays frozen for two or more years.