Press release

Press release

Award
Permafrost researcher Dr Jens Strauss, AWI Potsdam, was awarded "Young Scientist 2015". With this award the chairmen of the Friends' Association acknowledge the researcher's outstanding achievements

The thawing of permafrost poses various endangerments to the Arctic environment and the livelihoods of people. An international team examined the social risks for Arctic regions and identified five key risks related to infrastructure, transport and supply, water quality, food security and health. Press release of the University of Vienna

primary production) over the past two decades, according to remote-sensing studies. At the same time, permafrost thaw is accelerating due to warming, releasing more nutrients and carbon into the Arctic Ocean

Industrial waste lurks in thousands of sites in the Arctic permafrost regions – some of it is highly toxic. If the permafrost thaws increasingly deeper due to the massive warming of the Arctic deeper and [...] is part of the joint project "ThinIce" (Thawing industrial legacies in the Arctic - a threat to permafrost ecosystems), which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research with 1.9

Arctic permafrost stores massive amounts of organic carbon in its frozen soils and deeper deposits. However, as the Arctic warms particularly rapidly, these deposits are thawing out. As a result, more [...] gases will be released into the atmosphere. There has been little research on where and how quickly permafrost thaws, as well as on the processes that cause the rapid thaw. PeTCaT (Rapid Pe rmafrost T haw Ca [...] to make projections about the possible developments and impacts of greenhouse gases from thawing permafrost. The project is funded by the non-profit organisation Schmidt Sciences.

Permafrost is an important carbon storage on Earth. However, climate change and its effects are increasingly altering permafrost landscapes around the world, releasing greenhouse gases. To monitor the [...] the state of permafrost comprehensively, long-term and sustainably, the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) has been collecting high-quality measurement data in its data platform since the 1990s [...] 1990s. Over the last few years, scientists from the Permafrost Section in Potsdam have reorganized the data platform and now made it public on the new GTN-P website . The data is continuously collected

the permafrost – with a host of grave consequences. Typical permafrost landscape in Yukon, Canada (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) What does permafrost look like? Some landscapes in the permafrost regions [...] Can permafrost only be found on land? How deep does the permafrost go? To what depth does it thaw in summer? Why is thawing permafrost important for the climate? How much carbon does the permafrost contain [...] How fast is the permafrost thawing? Why are permafrost coasts increasingly collapsing? How is the thawing permafrost affecting people living in these regions? How is the thawing permafrost affecting economies