Hidden Roots: How Underground Processes Could Decide the Arctic’s Carbon Future
A new review argues that changing root and rhizosphere processes beneath the greening Arctic may determine whether thawing permafrost becomes ...
Tag: Permafrost
Arctic Snow Gets a Makeover: Scientists Rebuild a Climate Model’s Snow Physics
Scientists overhauled the snow physics of Canada's CLASSIC land surface model, cutting Arctic snow depth and soil temperature errors dramatically ...
Hidden Lake Microbes Take Over Nitrogen Cycling on the Tibetan Plateau
In the alkaline sediments of Tibetan Plateau thermokarst lakes, comammox Nitrospira outcompete canonical nitrifiers and suppress nitrous oxide production, revealing ...
Radioactive Clocks in Arctic Ice Reveal Hidden Water Flow Inside Permafrost
Radium and thorium isotope measurements from Svalbard permafrost cores show that some ground ice is thousands of years old while ...
Missing Microbes Could Supercharge Permafrost Greenhouse Gas Emissions
A new study shows that thawed permafrost soils across the Arctic lack key microbial functions, and that microbes migrating in ...
Deep Thaw in the High Arctic Exposes Vulnerable Soil Carbon, Study Finds
A study of collapsing permafrost at Cape Bounty in the Canadian High Arctic shows that deep sediments exposed by retrogressive ...
Hospital CT Scanners Mismeasure the Ice Hidden in Permafrost, Study Finds
A comparison of 261 permafrost cores from northern Canada shows that medical CT scanners systematically misestimate ground ice, underestimating it ...
Permafrost Thaw Lags Behind Cooling, Locking In Carbon Emissions Even After CO2 Falls
New Earth system model experiments reveal that permafrost thaw continues for decades after global temperatures begin to fall, with hysteresis ...
Rivers Carry a Quarter of Land’s Carbon to the Sea, but the Numbers Remain Shrouded in Uncertainty
A major new review finds that rivers deliver roughly 0.8 to 1.0 petagrams of carbon to the ocean each year, ...
T-REX teaches climate models how landscapes secretly share water and heat
A new scheme called T-REX introduces lateral exchange of water and heat between landscape tiles in the ICON-Land model, dramatically ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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