Melting permafrost in Alaska and other northern regions could unleash large amounts of warming gases from peatlands The world's peatlands will become a large source of greenhouse gases as ...

Among the most rapidly changing parts of our planet are the coldest landscapes near the top of the globe, just south of the ...

Peatlands cover around 3% of Earth’s land ... Boreal regions are also underlain by vast swaths of permafrost – continuously frozen ground – which contains huge amounts of carbon.

The research showed cutting temperatures from their peak could also prove harder than anticipated even if CDR is scaled up, particularly as melting permafrost and shrinking peatlands release ...

A nation nobody wants According to Biasi, the time to act to limit global warming is now. If we do too little, the thawing of permafrost soils will accelerate global warming enormously. By 2100 ...

It’s evidence that permafrost, the long-frozen soil below the surface, is thawing. That’s bad news for the communities built above it – and for the global climate. Permafrost is perennially ...

Mercury can be toxic and cause severe health consequences in high concentrations. Melting permafrost could also lead to other ecological consequences that threaten humans and the ecosystem.

De-extinction scientists have turned their attention to species from more 'recent' times — notably the Quaternary Period, ...

Permafrost is different. Rather than the woodland, you’re fighting for your life amid the frozen ruins of what were once sprawling cities. Make sure you’ve wrapped up warm, because the Steam ...