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Bookmark or Share- Global warming is melting the permafrost layer, creating big holes in ...Abrupt melting of the permafrost layer is leading to erosion, landslides and craters in the Arctic landscape. As the permafrost melts, greenhouse gases are released into the environment. Current climate change forecasts may underestimate the emissions from permafrost because they only take into account gradual thawing of the ice layer.
- The deadly diseases being released as ice thaws - The World Economic ForumThawing permafrost has also led to greater erosion of river banks where nomads often buried their dead, Kokorin said. Anthrax may not be the only infectious disease lurking in the ice. In 2004, US researchers successfully revived the 1918 Spanish flu – which killed millions of people – from a fragment of a corpse’s lung frozen in the ...
- How rising temperatures might impact Arctic ‘doomsday vault’ in NorwayClimate scientist Dr Boris K Biskaborn of the Alfred Wegener Institute polar and marine research centre found Arctic continuous permafrost ground temperatures increased by 0.39℃ between 2008 and 2016. A similar trend was found in Antarctica, with increases of 0.29℃ over the same period.
- ‘Imminent’ tipping point threatening Europe’s permafrost peatlands ...If this permafrost begins to melt, it could release carbon that has accumulated over centuries and millennia. Large swathes of northern Europe and western Siberia may become “climatically unsuitable” for carbon-rich permafrost peatlands within a few decades, even under moderate warming scenarios, a new study warns.
- What the melting Arctic means for the worldPermafrost and methane And then we can see that the permafrost is thawing. Now, permafrost, of course, releases methane which is a concentrated [greenhouse] gas.
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