This effect creates a feedback loop: More melting soil means there are more plant roots to feed hungry microbes, which warm the atmosphere simply by existing.. The priming effect isn't new ...

This "giant mercury bomb" lurks within the soils of permafrost in Alaska, which is slowly melting and being washed away by rivers such as the Yukon River, according to a new paper in the journal ...

In that case, there are likely to be more drunken trees. Right now, around 7 to 8 percent of the land in the middle boreal zone in Alaska is showing some signs of drunken trees or other melting ...

Dear Roaring Fork, Climate change can feel overwhelming. Melting glaciers, mega-storms, burning forests — it’s easy to feel powerless. But what if the answer isn’t just in policy or protest? What if ...

The losses in soil moisture already pose issues for farming, irrigation systems and critical water resources for humans. But new research shows how the declines are contributing to sea-level rise ...

The melting of Greenland's ice sheet is recognised as the largest single contributor to the ... The ERA5-Land soil moisture data of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts ...

This freezes in the permafrost - where the ground stays frozen all year round - and over thousands of years, mercury concentrations have built up in the soil. In this form, it isn’t particularly ...