How Much Carbon Will Peatlands Lose as Permafrost Thaws?

    A process-based model reveals that how much carbon peatlands may lose—or accumulate—in the future varies from place to place.

    Reinhard Süring Foundation honours permafrost researcher Moritz Langer

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    AWI permafrost researcher Moritz Langer received the climate award of the Reinhard Süring Foundation. The award is endowed with a prize money of 1500 euro and honours Langer outstanding [...] outstanding study: Satellite-based modeling of permafrost temperatures in a tundra lowland landscape, published in the scientific journal Remote Sensing of Environment.

    Winters in Siberian permafrost regions have warmed since millennia

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    Gradual but steady thaw: an international team of researchers gains new insights into arctic permafrost

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    Where is the world’s permafrost thawing?

    first online data portal on global permafrost. In the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (www.gtnp.org) researchers first collect all the existing permafrost temperature and active thickness layer [...] layer data from Arctic, Antarctic and mountain permafrost regions and then make it freely available for download. This new portal can serve as an early warning system for researchers and decision-makers

    First UNEP Permafrost Report relies on expertise of the Alfred Wegener Institute

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    Environmental Prize for Permafrost Researcher

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    Rising permafrost temperatures raise emission of the climate gas methane

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    Putin’s promised new building now in operation: AWI permafrost researchers start work in the new research station in the Russian Lena Delta

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    Thawing Permafrost: The speed of coastal erosion in Eastern Siberia has nearly doubled

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