Newslettercommons.wikimedia.org Under the sea, a hidden climate variable: Thawing permafrost Carefully mapping the changing topology of the Arctic Ocean floor, scientists are racing to study submarine permafrost.
NewsletterFWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute/ Flickr Underwater permafrost is a big, gassy wild card for the climate You’ve probably heard of permafrost, the frozen carbon-rich land. But it’s also thawing under the sea, burping up planet-warming gases.
Impacts e360.yale.edu Submarine permafrost has been overlooked as a major source of greenhouse gases, scientists warn The amount of carbon locked into submarine permafrost is more than humans have released into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.
