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

Putting permafrost in the classroom The Arctic’s permanently frozen soils are increasingly thawing – with far-reaching consequences for the climate and for people living in the region. Together with partner [...] schoolchildren from Aklavik, Canada are helping the Alfred Wegener Institute gather valuable data on permafrost. By doing so, they’re improving the joint understanding of the changes at work on their doorstep [...] has consequences for the day-to-day lives of the roughly five million people who live atop the permafrost. Entire sections of coastline are washed away by the sea, while elsewhere the ground collapses

fixed : Overview Agenda 16th DACH Permafrost Conference (Graphic: D-A-CH Permafrost Union) Detailed Agenda 16th DACH Permafrost Conference (Graphic: D-A-CH Permafrost Union) Map HVHS Seddiner See (Graphic: [...] connected with several international networks: International Permafrost Association (IPA) Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) Permafrost Young Researchers Network (PYRN) Association of Polar Early [...] 16th DACH Permafrost Conference 21–24 January 2026 | HVHS am Seddiner See, near Potsdam, Germany We are pleased to invite you to the 16th DACH Permafrost Conference , taking place from 21 to 24 January