The Current State of Arctic PERMAFROST THAW

Soil layers of permafrost that scientists expected to remain frozen for at least 70 more years have already begun thawing.

STUDIES

Arctic Permafrost Is Going Through a Rapid Meltdown — 70 Years Early https://www.livescience.com/65709-arctic-permafrost-melts-decades-early.html

Climate Change Drives Widespread and Rapid Thermokarst Development in Very Cold Permafrost in the Canadian High Arctic https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019GL082187

A decade of remotely sensed observations highlight complex processes linked to coastal permafrost bluff erosion in the Arctic (2018) https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae471

Direct observation of permafrost degradation and rapid soil carbon loss in tundra https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0387-6

NAU scientists find carbon from thawing permafrost is released into the atmosphere at higher rates than previously thought https://news.nau.edu/schuur-carbon-permafrost-study

CREDITS

ESA Permafrost thaw image http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2019/05/Permafrost_thaw

VICE “Drunken Forests” In Alaska Are Another Sign Of Melting Permafrost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2TUQxpQmaU

YaleClimateConnections / GREENMAN STUDIO Permafrost is thawing rapidly. How much should we worry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZktE0ItFjE

CBS Thawing permafrost in Alaska presents threats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUOrPJz-uUk

The Zero Hour with RJ Eskow: Dr. Katey Walter Anthony: What's Happening to the Permafrost? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fetZbsIH_yk

NASA's 2018 Permafrost Special "All Hell Breaks Lose" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loAB0U0S0UM

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Graphics PAGE21 educational images https://www.page21.eu/press-center/2-uncategorised/55-promotional-material

Louise Farquharson https://www.louisefarquharson.com

WWF
NASA
USGS
ESA
GREENMAN STUDIO

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