Permafrost Kingdom (Russian: Ца́рство ве́чной мерзлоты́) is a tourist complex in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia. Established in 2005, the complex is located...
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Permafrost (from perma- 'permanent', and frost) is soil or underwater sediment which continuously remains below 0 °C (32 °F) for two years or more: the...
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Heritage site, and the Permafrost Kingdom, which is a tourist complex dedicated to showcasing the unique features of the region's permafrost. With the Lena River...
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Norway (redirect from Kingdom of Norway)
Europe. Norway has about 400,000 lakes and 239,057 registered islands. Permafrost can be found all year in the higher mountain areas and in the interior...
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The permafrost carbon cycle or Arctic carbon cycle is a sub-cycle of the larger global carbon cycle. Permafrost is defined as subsurface material that...
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dioxide in the permafrost, making the tundra soil a carbon sink. As global warming heats the ecosystem and causes soil thawing, the permafrost carbon cycle...
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Cryosphere (section Frozen ground and permafrost)
cover, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost). Thus, there is a wide overlap with the hydrosphere. The cryosphere is...
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nucleic activity. Some of these specimens are on display at the Kingdom of the Permafrost museum near Yakutsk. (E) - denote an extinct species Bison priscus...
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has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost under the tundra. Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places...
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Scythians (redirect from Scythian kingdom in Western Asia)
places also with suspected human sacrifices. Mummification techniques and permafrost have aided in the relative preservation of some remains. Scythian archaeology...
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Arctic methane emissions (category Permafrost)
release of methane from Arctic ocean waters as well as from soils in permafrost regions of the Arctic. While it is a long-term natural process, methane...
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Drunken trees (category Permafrost)
taiga forests of black spruce (Picea mariana) under which discontinuous permafrost or ice wedges have melted, causing trees to tilt at various angles. Tilted...
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Greenland (redirect from Greenland of the Kingdom of Denmark)
Little, Brown and Company. p. 62. Grønnow, B. (1988). "Prehistory in permafrost: Investigations at the Saqqaq site, Qeqertasussuk, Disco Bay, West Greenland"...
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Christina; Strauss, Jens; Treat, Claire; Turetsky, Merritt (2022). "Permafrost and Climate Change: Carbon Cycle Feedbacks From the Warming Arctic". Annual...
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into plants and released when biomass burns or decays. For instance, permafrost thaw produces both CO2 and methane emissions in ways that are difficult...
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(104 °F). Much of Northern Canada is covered by ice and permafrost. The future of the permafrost is uncertain because the Arctic has been warming at three...
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Peat (section United Kingdom)
peatlands is permafrost-affected, and this area represents around a tenth of the total permafrost area, and also a tenth (185 ± 66 Gt) of all permafrost carbon...
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The International Permafrost Association (IPA), founded in 1983, is an international professional body formed to foster the dissemination of knowledge...
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Climate change in the Arctic (section Permafrost thaw)
accelerating melting of the Greenland ice sheet and the thawing of the permafrost landscape.: 2321 These ongoing transformations are expected to be irreversible...
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more common. Amplified warming in the Arctic has contributed to thawing permafrost, retreat of glaciers and sea ice decline. Higher temperatures are also...
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Effects of climate change (section Permafrost thawing)
natural environment with effects such as more intense forest fires, thawing permafrost, and desertification. These changes impact ecosystems and societies, and...
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IPA (section United Kingdom)
Ireland Institute of Public Administration (disambiguation) International Permafrost Association International Play Association International Police Association...
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encircles the shore of the Arctic Ocean. The ground beneath this land is permafrost (frozen year-round). In these difficult growing conditions, few plants...
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as cold as it used to be. The retreating glaciers and thawing of the permafrost in the Tibet region might lead to uncertain effects on water resources...
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Methane emissions (section Permafrost thawing)
aviation industries combined. Permafrost contains almost twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, with ~20 Gt of permafrost-associated methane trapped in...
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Bartels, Meghan. "46,000-Year-Old Worm Possibly Revived from Siberian Permafrost". Scientific American. Retrieved 2023-07-30. Shatilovich, Anastasia; Gade...
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Significant reservoirs of methane clathrates have been found in arctic permafrost and along continental margins beneath the ocean floor within the gas clathrate...
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Climate change in Norway (section Thawing permafrost)
leader in electric vehicles. Warmer temperatures in Norway are causing permafrost and glaciers to retreat, and leading to shifts in precipitation patterns...
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seasonally variable amounts of sea ice that often connects with polar land, permafrost and ice sheets, forming polar ice caps. Earth's land covers 29.2%, or...
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was discovered that the bodies were failing to decompose because of the permafrost, and that they could be preserving various microorganisms. Bodies have...
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