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.
Temperatures in the Arctic are soaring. leading to unprecedented ice melt and melting of the permafrost. The Earth may be heating faster then anyone ever imagined.
NOAA reports that March 2017 set the all time record for warmest month in the absence of an El Nino event. The world is not only getting hotter, it is getting hotter faster.
Permafrost thaw and decay is intensifying in northern Canada, according to recent research from the Northwest Territories Geological Survey. To be more specific, the research found that out of a half-million-square-mile section of northwest Canada (the part the researchers analyzed), roughly 52,000 square miles is undergoing permafrost decay and collapse.
