Sentences with phrase «by the permafrost beneath»

The recent result Arctic Lakes Vanishing as Planet Warms tells us that the permafrost is melting (these lakes were held up by the permafrost beneath them — they just disappear into the water table below).

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Especially worrying is the observation that up to 10 percent of this area is now being punctured by so - called taliks areas of thawed permafrost that provide avenues for the ready escape of methane and opportunities for warmth to penetrate deep into the frozen hydrate beneath.

Black holes shaped by impressive charges of methane blasting up from beneath the thawing permafrost.

This extremely rapid warming is thought by Russian scientists to have destabilized zones of relic hydrate trapped beneath the permafrost.

When hydrates are present below permafrost, on land and beneath shallow marine shelves, they are also thermally buffered by the latent heat energy needed to melt the permafrost and it could take thousands of years to destabilize the gas hydrates (Taylor et al 2005).

But that didn't stop him: he continued calling — searching for infrastructure that was deteriorating as the permafrost thawed beneath it and for facilities threatened by coastal erosion and flooding — until he and his colleagues had mapped every inch of Alaska's infrastructure and put a price tag on what climate change might do to it.