Permafrost News

Evidence assembled from stalactite and stalagmite formations in frozen caves in Siberia by a team of international scientists led by Oxford University gives some clues as to what might happen if global temperatures continue to rise.

Thawing of permafrost is expected to cause significant additional global warming, not yet accounted for in climate predictions, warn scientists attached to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in a report released this week..

Fruit placental tissue of the herbaceous Silene stenophylla found in Siberian permafrost, and believed to have been stored by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago have been regenerated into full flowering plants by Russian scientists.

Each time a bubble breaks through are we at a greater risk? Those bubbles are coming from the the Arctic Circle and the risk is methane. Methane at a rate that could speed up climate change across the globe.

Permafrost blanketing the northern hemisphere contains more than twice the amount of carbon in the atmosphere, making it a potentially mammoth contributor to global climate change.

Some may doubt that the climate is changing but those in Arctic villages have watched their landscape changing. The melting permafrost is causing villages to slide away into the sea along with their way of life.

2000-year old intact remains found in Russia