A study shows that permafrost is likely to release up to 50 per cent more greenhouse gases than climate scientists have believed
Permafrost in some areas of the Canadian Arctic is melting so fast that it’s gulping up the equipment left there to study it.
“We’ve lost dozens of field sites. We were collecting data on a forest and all of a sudden it’s a lake.” Climate scientists have assumed a slow, steady erosion of permafrost and a similar pace of carbon release. Turetsky and her colleagues found something different. Wildfires, becoming larger and hotter every year over the Canadian boreal forest, are also causing rapid permafrost melt.
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