Tag: permafrost
The permafrost is thawing – now the amount of mercury in the Arctic is increasing
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari and Crown Princess Victoria during a visit to Svalbard in June 2023. Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT / TT News Agency The environmental…
Ancient viruses can infect humans when permafrost melts
expand-left full screen Humanity is facing a new pandemic threat.Ancient viruses lurk in the Arctic permafrost and are at risk of being released due to global warming. “The effects could…
pack ice, permafrost… The dangers of melting ice – L’Express
The observation is very worrying. An annual report on icy regions, published Thursday, November 16, shows how the degradation of glaciers, poles and permafrost “will have rapid, irreversible and disastrous…
Fires: thawing permafrost, this disaster that threatens Canada
There is the visual and immediately perceptible damage: charred trees, destroyed natural habitats, evacuated cities. And then the many other, less visible consequences of the fires that have been ravaging…
Fires: thawing permafrost, this disaster that threatens Canada
There is the visual and immediately perceptible damage: charred trees, destroyed natural habitats, evacuated cities. And then the many other, less visible consequences of the fires that have been ravaging…
Permafrost is no longer forever – scientists are urgently collecting samples of ancient ice before it has time to melt away
Arctic ice provides information about what the earth’s climate was like in the past. The team of researchers recovered an ancient ice core from Huippuvuori, which contains up to 300…
Researchers warn of thawing permafrost in the Arctic
In the Arctic, climate change is moving much faster than in the rest of the world. Our reporter has met the researcher Jonas Åkerman who for 50 years studied how…
How are soils formed?
In our garden, in the forest, in the desert… the soils are incredibly diverse. But how are they structured and how do they form? You will also be interested We…
Melting permafrost threatens to release microbes and carbon
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Melting permafrost promotes global warming Permafrost, or permafrost in English, includes the soils of our planet that are permanently frozen. It is threatened…
Thawing permafrost creates underwater sinkholes in the Arctic
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Melting permafrost promotes global warming Permafrost, or permafrost in English, includes the soils of our planet that are permanently frozen. It is threatened…