Unexpected future boost of methane possible from Arctic permafrost
Saturday, August 18, 2018 - 10:50
in Earth & Climate
New NASA-funded research has discovered that Arctic permafrost’s expected gradual thawing and the associated release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere may actually be sped up by instances of a relatively little known process called abrupt thawing. Abrupt thawing takes place under a certain type of Arctic lake, known as a thermokarst lake that forms […]