/channels/taxonomy/term/10567/all en /channels/channels/news/new-technique-measuring-greenhouse-gas-production-thawing-permafrost-321316 <p>A research team led by ƻ����Ժ geochemist <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/eps/douglas">Peter Douglas</a> has used a new method for measuring the rate at which methane is produced by microbes breaking down thawing permafrost. “There is a lot of concern about methane being released from permafrost, but we don’t know how available carbon that has been frozen for thousands of years is to microbes,” says Douglas, an assistant professor in ƻ����Ժ’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.</p> Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:33:38 +0000 webfull 159759 at /channels /channels/news/new-permafrost-forming-around-shrinking-arctic-lakes-237010 <p><strong>By Katherine Gombay - News - June 10</strong></p> <p>Researchers from ƻ����Ժ and the U.S. Geological Survey, more used to measuring thawing permafrost than its expansion, have made a surprising discovery. There is new permafrost forming around Twelvemile Lake in the interior of Alaska. But they have also quickly concluded that, given the current rate of climate change, it won’t last beyond the end of this century. Tue, 10 Jun 2014 14:30:10 +0000 webfull 103171 at /channels