Alaska's lakes and ponds reveal effects of permafrost thaw

As climate change warms the Arctic, permafrost is thawing, and carbon trapped within the soil is moving into the atmosphere. Permafrost stores twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, but the degree to which this frozen carbon will thaw and accelerate climate change has remained a point of scientific inquiry. Taking widespread on-the-ground permafrost measurements is not logistically feasible in the remote Far North.