A new paper published in Nature Communications discusses the increased mobilization of deeply frozen, ancient carbon caused by abrupt thaws beneath thermokarst lakes.This long-term study has been conducted by WERC researcher Katey Walter Anthony and her colleagues who studied hundreds of thermokarst lakes in Alaska and Siberia during a 12-year period.
Read the full story ‘Abrupt thaw’ of permafrost beneath lakes could significantly affect climate change models on UAF news.
