Burnley's Mill Textile Museum launches new exhibition
The University of Manchester has launched a new exhibition exploring the social and environmental legacies of North West England’s cotton industry
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The University of Manchester has launched a new exhibition exploring the social and environmental legacies of North West England’s cotton industry
Posted April 23, 2021 Permafrost, or continuously frozen ground, covers about 24 percent of the Northern Hemisphere, including 50 percent of Canada, more than 60 percent of Russia, and almost 85 percent of Alaska. Scientific understanding and modelling of long-term permafrost dynamics are still at the development stage [1, 2] but the effects of thawing permafrost on Arctic coastline erosion and infrastructure collapse are already causing concerns. Ice under permafrost soil. Photo: SeppFriedhuber/Getty Images Global warming and Arctic permafrost thaw Permafrost is a substantial sink of CO2 and...