A large block of permafrost that has broken off on the coast of Alaska. Photo: Benjamin Jones, USGS Methane escapes from upland Arctic Yedoma permafrost soils in quantities that exceed those in regions further north by far – emissions that have only recently...
Large glacial fronts of ice sheets once also covered large parts of the Arctic Ocean and exerted pressure on the seafloor in the shelf region. Nowadays, the ice barriers are all in retreat, also on Svalbard (pictured: Austfonna). Picture: Michael Wenger The melting of...
Rapid detection of methane in the bubbles on site by lighting on a lake near Fairbanks in Alaska. (Photo: AWI, Guido Grossen) The lakes in the northern latitudes are considered to be an important source of the greenhouse gas methane. In order to improve the existing...
