As it vanishes it will release greenhouse gas emissions that it has stored for years. 🧐
how the tundra in Russia's northwest Siberia was exploding as a 165-foot-deep crater tore open in the northwest region of an area typically considered one of the coldest on the planet.The new crater had become the latest sign of Siberia's extra hot summers caused by global warming. Now, a new report is revealing that the
What's even worse is that as the tundra's permafrost cover melts away, it could release into the atmosphere large amounts of stored greenhouse gases, "This was stunning for us to see how quickly the tundra will be turned over to forest," ecologist and forest modeler Stefan Kruse of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, GermanyKruse and his colleague, AWI professor Ulrike Herzschuh, have developed a new computer model that...
The researchers deduced that the trees that start growing northward in response to warming, will do so quickly and will not retreat even if temperatures cool down again. This will result in the tundra being separated into two mini-tundras: one in Chukotka in the far east and one on the Taymyr Peninsula in the far north.The researchers further studied what would happen if humanity were able to get temperatures to cool after the tundra became a forest.