Thawing permafrost becomes 25 to 100 times more permeable, experiments find

Thawing permafrost becomes 25 to 100 times more permeable, experiments find

Experiments by University of Leeds researchers, published in Earth's Future, have shown that thawing of permafrost makes it between 25 and 100 times more permeable, allowing more climate change forcing gases to escape.

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Thawing permafrost becomes far more permeable Experiments highlighted in the provided stories show that thawing permafrost can become dramatically more permeable than it is when frozen—an effect that would allow greenhouse gases trapped in Arctic soils to move more easily to the atmosphere. In the…

New laboratory experiments by University of Leeds researchers have revealed that thawing permafrost becomes 25 to 100 times more permeable than when frozen, dramatically increasing the rate at which greenhouse gases escape. The findings quantify a mechani