Yedoma, a highly organic, Pleistocene-age permafrost, contains 50 to 90 percent ice mixed with organic carbon. When Yedoma melts, it delivers a blast of potent greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Tag: Permafrost
Climate Change Goes Local – Day 3: Melting Permafrost
Arctic permafrost is a ticking carbon bomb waiting to explode.
Climate modeling: getting it wrong again
We often err on the low side when it comes to climate modeling.
Ancient microbes in permafrost
Microbes in permafrost survive over vast spans of time ice and return to life as the ice thaws.
Permafrost: A ticking carbon bomb
Thawing permafrost releases centuries old carbon into the atmosphere
Arctic Warming
The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet