Warming-driven erosion and sediment transport in cold regions

T Zhang, D Li, AE East, DE Walling, S Lane… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid atmospheric warming since the mid-twentieth century has increased temperature-
dependent erosion and sediment-transport processes in cold environments, affecting food …

Defrosting northern catchments: Fluvial effects of permafrost degradation

N Tananaev, E Lotsari - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper discusses the potential response of fluvial processes and landforms to the
projected permafrost degradation and related hydrological change. Fluvial system structure …

[HTML][HTML] Circum-Arctic map of the Yedoma permafrost domain

J Strauss, S Laboor, L Schirrmeister… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ice-rich permafrost in the circum-Arctic and sub-Arctic (hereafter pan-Arctic), such as late
Pleistocene Yedoma, are especially prone to degradation due to climate change or human …

Yedoma: Late Pleistocene ice-rich syngenetic permafrost of Beringia

L Schirrmeister, D Froese, S Wetterich, J Strauss… - 2024 - epic.awi.de
Yedoma is a permafrost deposit widely distributed across the Arctic and found exclusively
within the unglaciated regions in northern Siberia, Alaska, and the Yukon, which are the …

[HTML][HTML] An update on eukaryotic viruses revived from ancient permafrost

JM Alempic, A Lartigue, AE Goncharov, G Grosse… - Viruses, 2023 - mdpi.com
One quarter of the Northern hemisphere is underlain by permanently frozen ground, referred
to as permafrost. Due to climate warming, irreversibly thawing permafrost is releasing …

[HTML][HTML] Thawing Yedoma permafrost is a neglected nitrous oxide source

ME Marushchak, J Kerttula, K Diáková, A Faguet… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In contrast to the well-recognized permafrost carbon (C) feedback to climate change, the fate
of permafrost nitrogen (N) after thaw is poorly understood. According to mounting evidence …

[HTML][HTML] Degrading permafrost river catchments and their impact on Arctic Ocean nearshore processes

PJ Mann, J Strauss, J Palmtag, K Dowdy, O Ogneva… - Ambio, 2022 - Springer
Arctic warming is causing ancient perennially frozen ground (permafrost) to thaw, resulting
in ground collapse, and reshaping of landscapes. This threatens Arctic peoples' …

Landforms and degradation pattern of the Batagay thaw slump, Northeastern Siberia

AI Kizyakov, S Wetterich, F Günther, T Opel… - Geomorphology, 2023 - Elsevier
Thaw slumps are clear indicators of rapid permafrost degradation. They form preferentially in
near-surface ice-rich permafrost of northern high latitudes after initial thermal disturbance by …

[HTML][HTML] A globally relevant stock of soil nitrogen in the Yedoma permafrost domain

J Strauss, C Biasi, T Sanders, BW Abbott… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Nitrogen regulates multiple aspects of the permafrost climate feedback, including plant
growth, organic matter decomposition, and the production of the potent greenhouse gas …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal nitrogen fluxes of the Lena River Delta

T Sanders, C Fiencke, M Fuchs, C Haugk, B Juhls… - Ambio, 2022 - Springer
The Arctic is nutrient limited, particularly by nitrogen, and is impacted by anthropogenic
global warming which occurs approximately twice as fast compared to the global average …