Many peatlands have been frozen over thousands of years in permafrost with "nearly 20% of the permafrost areas, store[ing] nearly 50% of soil carbon of the permafrost ecosystem, equal to nearly 10 ...

Melting permafrost in Alaska and other northern regions could unleash large amounts of warming gases from peatlands The world's peatlands will become a large source of greenhouse gases as ...

Having assessed the depth of the permafrost layer in the field using georadars, we found that the permafrost on the burns lies deeper than on the sites of natural peatlands. That is, the part that was ...

Carbon and nutrients biogeochemistry in lakes and peatlands. Impact of hydrological extreme events and nutrient deposition in peatlands. Effects of permafrost disturbance by fire and thermokarst in ...

Peatlands cover around 3% of Earth’s land ... Boreal regions are also underlain by vast swaths of permafrost – continuously frozen ground – which contains huge amounts of carbon.

Britain and Ireland hold over 20% of the world's blanket bog Peatlands are a natural carbon sink, absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere and burying it in the soil. In Europe alone, they lock up about ...

Switzerland is a pioneering country in the study of permafrost. The thawing of terrain that used to be permanently frozen is becoming more and more prevalent, and it has planet-wide repercussions.

One of the best examples of this phenomenon is the recent Permafrost event. RELATED: Rainbow Six Siege: An Ultimate Guide to the NEW Blackbeard There's a lot to do during the Permafrost festival ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...