Nature Communications, 10 December 2024
Mountain permafrost makes up 30% of global permafrost area, and helps preserve the stability of many high altitude steep mountain slopes. Permafrost thawing and degradation causes far-reaching impacts and risks to both human safety and infrastructure, as well as on ecosystems and hydrological processes. In this study, decadal ground temperature data from boreholes in the Alps, Scandinavia, Iceland, Sierra Nevada and Svalbard show that during 2013–2022, permafrost in Europe’s mountains has warmed by more than 1°C per decade in several places, matching the rates of Arctic lowlands.
Full paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54831-9
News briefing provided by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL): https://phys.org/news/2024-12-mountain-permafrost-europe.html
Nature Communications, 29 May 2026 The soils of Arctic river deltas store large amounts of…
Scientific Reports, 27 May 2026 Rising global temperatures increase the exposure of communities and infrastructure…
Global Environmental Change, 20 May 2026 In the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, reducing greenhouse gas emissions could…
Nature Sustainability, 4 May 2026 Sediment records from the Last Inter-Glacial (LIG) period suggest that…
NPJ Climate and Atmospheric Science, 20 May 2026 Human-caused warming has been the primary driver…
Nature Communications, 27 May 2026 Sudden drainage of meltwater lakes through water-filled fractures can locally…