A researcher retrieves data from a monitoring device in Shanza. Together with other institutes at the CAS they have set up more than 30 monitoring sites, scattered across the plateau from the Zoige grassland near its eastern edge to the western county of Rutog bordering India, as well as from Dromo county on the southern tip to Hoh Xil nature …
Concrete tunnels and permafrost: How Sweden is future-proofing skiing Torsby Skidtunnel & Sportcenter As temperatures across the nation are rising at an alarmingly high rate, Sweden is moving its beloved national pastime indoors. Each year, millions of Swedes gather around our TVs to watch the world's biggest and oldest annual cross-country skiing competition, the 90km Vasaloppet, whose 100th race takes …
Lightning strikes inside the Arctic circle may double this century, sparking widespread tundra fires and increasing the risk of setting off the carbon time bomb held within permafrost, new research showed Monday. "We projected how lightning in high-latitude boreal forests and Arctic tundra regions will change across North America and Eurasia," said Yang Chen, a researcher at the University of …