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It seems like yet another climate doomsday prediction has failed to materialize. The goalposts have been moved into the future, again.

“Improved drainage results in a drier landscape over a decadal timescale, and the process then becomes self-limiting,” said Scott Painter, who leads the Watershed Systems Modeling group at ORNL.

European Researchers warned that climate change could reanimate frozen "zombie viruses" and expose humans to lethal diseases. In November 2022, researchers from France, Germany and Russia announced that they had reanimated...

Melting permafrost will play a major role in shaping Earth's future. Recent research published in Nature Communications has established that alpine permafrost will melt much faster than arctic permafrost under current...

Researchers warn that permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia are much closer to a climatic tipping point than previous believed. 

The hope is that using measurements from a combination of platforms will help scientists create a fuller picture of changes at the poles, where permafrost is thawing the fastest.

"The ice wedges form from the freezing and melting of soil in the tundra," said Liljedahl. "Some of them are tens of thousands of years old."

From the PNAS Abstract Rapid Arctic warming has intensified northern wildfires and is thawing carbon-rich permafrost. Carbon emissions from permafrost thaw and Arctic wildfires, which are not fully accounted for…

In the far north, the swelling Arctic Ocean inundated vast swaths of coastal tundra and steppe ecosystems. Though the ocean water was only a few degrees above freezing, it started to thaw the permafrost beneath it, exposing...

A few days ago WUWT reported on a Norwegian "past the point of no return" global warming paper whose outlook was so pessimistic even climate alarmists were upset...

Scientists have warned that Alaska and other cold, mountainous places worldwide could experience tsunamis due to the melting of permafrost. As the permafrost melts, it can no longer hold the mountains together, leading to...

The Guardian wants you to weep for an ice shelf which even they admit didn't exist back when the Egyptian Pyramids were being constructed. They demand we doing everything in our power to prevent the ice melt from uncovering...

Alaska is getting wetter. A new study spells out what that means for the permafrost that underlies about 85% of the state, and the consequences for Earth's global climate.

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of SciencesShare Print E-Mail What nitrogen is getting up to in permafrost soils may be much more interesting than researchers have long believed–with potentially...

New mitigation strategy bears great potential University of Hamburg Permafrost soils in the Arctic are thawing. As they do, large additional quantities of greenhouse gases could be released, accelerating climate change. In...