ConocoPhillips and other oil companies operating in Alaska’s North Slope are working to keep the permafrost from melting so they can continue to extract the oil that leads to the permafrost melting in the first place.
Siberia is a pretty popular place lately. It was already in the news last week because temperatures rose to record highs. This week a different disaster took place there, a major oil spill.
There’s a new way to see how much methane is being released from Arctic lakes. Using synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a research team at the University of Alaska Fairbanks was able to study satellite images differently.
Every month, climate scientists make new discoveries that advance our understanding of climate change’s causes and impacts. The research gives a clearer picture of the threats we already face and explores what’s to come if we don’t reduce emissions at a quicker pace.
An article from Wired has an alarming headline that shows the impact of a fast-thawing permafrost gouging holes in the Arctic.
A new study shows that the abrupt thawing of the Arctic permafrost will double previous estimates of potential carbon emissions — carbon that was once frozen in the permafrost ice. In fact, it is already changing the landscape and ecology of the circumpolar north.
Are climate models accurate? Do “worst case scenarios” do more harm than good? In the end, none of that will matter if humans don’t stop depending on fossil fuels as the basis of their existence.
What do we protect? What do we make resilient? What do we abandon, and how? What do we avoid? These are major global questions for the 21st Century.
When even Russia starts to believe in climate change, the world really is coming to an end. Yet to everyone’s surprise, that is exactly what happened.
Researchers at Lancaster University have studied the economic effect of melting ice cap and permafrost in the Arctic and set the number at $70 Trillion over the next two centuries. Surprisingly, that’s not as much as originally feared.
