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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...