Peter Wadhams / Permafrost

Beneath the permafrost is a deep layer of organic matter that will release loads of methane if the frost thaws.

Click above to listen to part 3 of On Thin Ice, featuring Peter Wadhams, Emeritus Professor of Ocean Physics at Cambridge University in the U.K. and the author of A Farewell to Ice: A Report from the Arctic.

On Thin Ice:

Part 1: Peter Wadhams / Sea Ice

Part 2: Eric Rignot / Larsen C

Part 3: Peter Wadhams / Permafrost

Part 4: Åsmund Asdal / Doomsday Vault

Part 5: John Priscu / Microbes Unleashed

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