by faster | Aug 10, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: BBC News DATE: August 10, 2020 SNIP: The world’s peatlands will become a large source of greenhouse gases as temperatures rise this century, say scientists. Right now, huge amounts of carbon are stored in boggy, often frozen regions stretching across...
by faster | Mar 11, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Narwhal DATE: March 11, 2020 SNIP: The tundra of the western Canadian Arctic has long been carpeted in cranberries, blueberries, cloudberries, shrubs, sedges, and lichen that have provided abundant food for grizzly bears, caribou, and other animals. Now,...
by faster | Feb 5, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Science Alert and Nature Geoscience DATE: February 5, 2020 SNIP: Permafrost in Canada, Alaska and Siberia is abruptly crumbling in ways that could release large stores of greenhouse gases more quickly than anticipated, researchers have warned. Scientists have...
by faster | Dec 12, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: University of Alaska Fairbanks DATE: December 12, 2019 SNIP: “This green line looks like the death of permafrost — it’s flatlining,” Louise Farquharson said to an audience of a few dozen scientists. Her reserved tone hid a bombshell message — by 2035...
by faster | Dec 10, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: Washington Post DATE: December 10, 2019 SNIP: The Arctic is undergoing a profound, rapid and unmitigated shift into a new climate state, one that is greener, features far less ice and emits greenhouse gas emissions from melting permafrost, according to a major...