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 …

Arctic mercury cycling

A Dastoor, H Angot, J Bieser, JH Christensen… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Anthropogenic mercury (Hg) emissions have driven marked increases in Arctic Hg levels,
which are now being impacted by regional warming, with uncertain ecological …

Drivers, dynamics and impacts of changing Arctic coasts

AM Irrgang, M Bendixen, LM Farquharson… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Arctic coasts are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels and
the loss of permafrost, sea ice and glaciers. Assessing the influence of anthropogenic …

Around one third of current Arctic Ocean primary production sustained by rivers and coastal erosion

J Terhaar, R Lauerwald, P Regnier, N Gruber… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Net primary production (NPP) is the foundation of the oceans' ecosystems and the fisheries
they support. In the Arctic Ocean, NPP is controlled by a complex interplay of light and …

Increase in Arctic coastal erosion and its sensitivity to warming in the twenty-first century

DM Nielsen, P Pieper, A Barkhordarian… - Nature Climate …, 2022 - nature.com
Arctic coastal erosion damages infrastructure, threatens coastal communities and releases
organic carbon from permafrost. However, the magnitude, timing and sensitivity of coastal …

Anthropogenic, direct pressures on coastal wetlands

A Newton, J Icely, S Cristina, GME Perillo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Coastal wetlands, such as saltmarshes and mangroves that fringe transitional waters,
deliver important ecosystem services that support human development. Coastal wetlands …

Rapid CO2 Release From Eroding Permafrost in Seawater

G Tanski, D Wagner, C Knoblauch… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Permafrost is thawing extensively due to climate warming. When permafrost thaws,
previously frozen organic carbon (OC) is converted into carbon dioxide (CO2) or methane …

An Assessment of CO2 Uptake in the Arctic Ocean From 1985 to 2018

S Yasunaka, M Manizza, J Terhaar… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As a contribution to the Regional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes phase 2
(RECCAP2) project, we present synthesized estimates of Arctic Ocean sea‐air CO2 fluxes …

A decade of remotely sensed observations highlight complex processes linked to coastal permafrost bluff erosion in the Arctic

BM Jones, LM Farquharson… - Environmental …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Eroding permafrost coasts are likely indicators and integrators of changes in the Arctic
System as they are susceptible to the combined effects of declining sea ice extent, increases …

Rapid fluvio-thermal erosion of a yedoma permafrost cliff in the Lena River Delta

M Fuchs, I Nitze, J Strauss, F Günther… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The degradation of ice-rich permafrost deposits has the potential to release large amounts of
previously freeze-locked carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) with local implications, such as …