Etiket: permafrost
Methane in melting permafrost could cause emissions to skyrocket: “This could quickly worsen climate crisis”
The Arctic’s permanently frozen soil, known as permafrost, is melting and threatening to release huge amounts of the powerful greenhouse gas methane. If that happens, it could quickly worsen the…
What is permafrost – iO Donna
chat is permafrost?The name evokes a famous brand of mattresses which in the 70s advertised its products with marvelous Carousels entitled: “There is something underneath”. It was the mattress, to…
Mammoths, permafrost and erratic boulders – NRC
‘Record mild turn of the year fits in with a warming trend’ headlined the KNMI this week on its own website. In De Bilt it was 15.9 ° C last…
‘True descriptions from the permafrost’ by Donald Niedekker, a poetic reflection on time and space, history and science | review
Much is known about the wintering of Willem Barentsz and his crew on Nova Zembla. We know from the diaries of a junior officer on board, Gerrit de Veer, that…