Abrupt Thawing Of Permafrost Below Arctic Lakes Poses Huge Climate Change Risks
21 August 2018, 7:39 pm EDT By MJ de Castro Tech Times
A part of the 10-year NASA study has found that the sudden melting beneath lakes is posing a threat to climate change.
The accelerating pace of climate change has alarmed people across the globe. For years now, researchers have been worried that the world's increasing temperatures will free the carbon, which is trapped in the frozen soil of the icy Arctic region. However, they found that the abrupt melting below its lakes carries a greater risk.
The Findings
"The mechanism of abrupt thaw and thermokarst lake formation matters a lot for the permafrost-carbon feedback this century," said Katey Walter Anthony, lead author of the study and ecologist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
The study is part of NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment program that aims to understand the climate change effects in the Arctic region. The effort was conducted by a group of German and American researchers.
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the rest of the animal kingdom too. 