Climate Professor Warns Heatwaves Accelerate Permafrost Tipping Point Risks

Professor Gustaf Hugelius warns that recent heatwaves and wildfires could accelerate carbon and methane releases by pushing permafrost regions toward irreversible thresholds.

• Permafrost regions contain three times more carbon than all living vegetation on Earth.
• Wildfires and heatwaves threaten to accelerate greenhouse gas releases from thawing tundra.