Wednesday, 9 January 2013

A New Way to Study Permafrost Soil, Above and Below Ground

Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2013



What does pulling a radar-equipped sled across the Arctic tundra have to do with improving our understanding of climate change? It's part of a new way to explore the little-known world of permafrost soils, which store almost as much carbon as the rest of the world's soils and about twice as much as is in the atmosphere.