“A methane monster, lurking beneath the Arctic’s frozen ground, is threatening to rear its ugly head. “Scientists don’t yet know how big the threat is or where it will strike […]
Scientific American: Researchers Just Created the World’s First Permafrost Atlas of the Entire Arctic
By Emily Schwing on December 13, 2023 “The Arctic Permafrost Atlas, which took years to create, is both beautiful and sobering, given the pace of climate change. “Emily Schwing: Imagine the entire Earth. Now think […]
Hopeful article from Science Alert: Ancient Worm Resurrected After 46,000 Years of Death-Defying Limbo
28 July 2023 By CARLY CASSELLA “An international effort to revive an ancient roundworm, frozen in Siberian permafrost for millennia, has unleashed a lifeform even older than scientists once thought. “In […]
Toxic Thaw
Thawing permafrost may unleash industrial pollution across the Arctic Climate change threatens to cause toxic substances from thousands of sites to flow free In May 2020, more than 20,000 […]
Points of No Return
By Alexandria Herr, Shannon Osaka, and Maddie Stone In 2019 an international team of scientists published a commentary in the celebrated science journal Nature, sounding the alarm of a planet in crisis — and […]