Celsias: Feedback Loops — Melting Permafrost
Editor’s note: This week, Celsias’ editor Craig Mackintosh takes a look at one of the biggest threats posed by global climate change: melting permafrost. This post was originally published on September 18, 2007.
As fascinating as it may seem to see a scientist potentially holding a pile of mammoth-poo in his hands, this is not a good sign.
Over 10% of the earth’s surface is covered in tundra, a thin layer of slow-growing plant matter (dwarf shrubs, grasses, mosses,
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