Thawing permafrost poses environmental threat to thousands of sites with legacy industrial contamination

Thousands of industrial sites were found to be correlated with contaminated sites in the Arctic. Between 13,000 and 20,000 contaminated sites are likely to exist in the permafrost region, 26% of which will be affected by permafrost thaw before 2100.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Moritz Langer, Thomas Schneider von Deimling, Sebastian Westermann, Rebecca Rolph, Ralph Rutte, Sofia Antonova, Volker Rachold, Michael Schultz, Alexander Oehme, Guido Grosse
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023
Subjects:
Science
Q
Arctic
permafrost
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37276-4
https://doaj.org/article/db57254552484da9ad294b0ab5af6d5f
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Summary:Thousands of industrial sites were found to be correlated with contaminated sites in the Arctic. Between 13,000 and 20,000 contaminated sites are likely to exist in the permafrost region, 26% of which will be affected by permafrost thaw before 2100.

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