We wanted to find out how much carbon and nitrogen is being released from the northern permafrost. Here’s the region’s first ...

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 ...

Carbon and nutrients biogeochemistry in lakes and peatlands. Impact of hydrological extreme events and nutrient deposition in peatlands. Effects of permafrost disturbance by fire and thermokarst in ...

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.

When permafrost soils thaw, the microbes find more organic material they can convert. As a result, nitrogen and nitrous oxide can also be outgassed from these soils. Small-scale climate models ...

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 ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...

A permafrost 'megaslump' in Siberia that's also known as the 'gate to hell' is expanding because of climate change, according ...

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