19.01.2025
The ongoing climate change contradicts the definition of permafrost, as the “permanent” part is no longer valid. Apart from altered landscapes, thawing permafrost, poses one of the biggest climate threat to the mankind. Packed with many thousands of years of life, from human bodies to the bodies of woolly mammoths, permafrost is one of earth’s great stores of global warming gases. It holds sizable amount of methane, which traps 80 times more heat than carbon. As it is melting, the temperature will rise, causing more thawing and trapping us in positive (but deadly) feedback loop.
The satellite imagery is created by a member of our club, Klaudia Kościuk, which won 3rd place in the “Seize the Beauty of Our Planet” competition organized by @cloudferro
Imagery: Andryushkino, Yakutia, Russia; 2024-08-07; Copernicus Sentinel-2
