Emergent biogeochemical risks from Arctic permafrost degradation

Trace gas oxidizers are widespread and active members of soil microbial communities

(2021) Sean K. Bay et al.   Nature Microbiology

Firn Evolution at Camp Century, Greenland: 1966–2100

(2021) Baptiste Vandecrux et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

A living bdelloid rotifer from 24,000-year-old Arctic permafrost

(2021) Lyubov Shmakova et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Factors Contributing to Anthrax Outbreaks in the Circumpolar North

(2020) Karsten Hueffer et al.   EcoHealth

Mercury Export from Arctic Great Rivers

(2020) Scott Zolkos et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Carbon release through abrupt permafrost thaw

(2020) Merritt R. Turetsky et al.   Nature Geoscience

Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

(2020) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   Nature Climate Change

Daily Satellite Observations of Methane from Oil and Gas Production Regions in the United States

(2020) Joost A. de Gouw et al.   Scientific Reports

Warming-induced permafrost thaw exacerbates tundra soil carbon decomposition mediated by microbial community

(2020) Jiajie Feng et al.   Microbiome

Landscape matters: Predicting the biogeochemical effects of permafrost thaw on aquatic networks with a state factor approach

(2020) Suzanne E. Tank et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

Prevalence of Antimicrobial Resistance and Hemolytic Phenotypes in Culturable Arctic Bacteria

(2020) Diana C. Mogrovejo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Heavy metals in the Arctic: Distribution and enrichment of five metals in Alaskan soils

(2020) Clarice R. Perryman et al.   PLoS One

Bacterial diversity on an abandoned, industrial wasteland contaminated by polychlorinated biphenyls, dioxins, furans and trace metals

(2020) Françoise Girardot et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change

(2020) Eystein Jansen et al.   Nature Climate Change

The Great Acceleration of fragrances and PAHs archived in an ice core from Elbrus, Caucasus

(2020) Marco Vecchiato et al.   Scientific Reports

Towards Circumpolar Mapping of Arctic Settlements and Infrastructure Based on Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2

(2020) Annett Bartsch et al.   Remote Sensing

Viral Ecogenomics of Arctic Cryopeg Brine and Sea Ice

(2020) Zhi-Ping Zhong et al.   mSystems

Frozen Zoo: a collection of permafrost samples containing viable protists and their viruses

(2020) Stas Malavin et al.   Biodiversity Data Journal

Future threat from the past

(2020) Amr El-Sayed et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Glacier retreat in the High Arctic: Opportunity or threat for ectomycorrhizal diversity?

(2020) S S Botnen et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The effects of warming and soil chemistry on bacterial community structure in Arctic tundra soils

(2020) Michael P. Ricketts et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Early Warning from Space for a Few Key Tipping Points in Physical, Biological, and Social-Ecological Systems

(2020) Didier Swingedouw et al.   SURVEYS IN GEOPHYSICS

Potential impacts of mercury released from thawing permafrost

(2020) Kevin Schaefer et al.   Nature Communications

Arctic sea-ice loss intensifies aerosol transport to the Tibetan Plateau

(2020) Fei Li et al.   Nature Climate Change

Permafrost thaw releases problems

(2019) Michael Gross   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Assessments of pollution status and human health risk of heavy metals in permafrost-affected soils and lichens: A case-study in Yamal Peninsula, Russia Arctic

(2019) Xiaowen Ji et al.   HUMAN AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT

Source apportionment of circum-Arctic atmospheric black carbon from isotopes and modeling

(2019) P. Winiger et al.   Science Advances

Circumpolar permafrost maps and geohazard indices for near-future infrastructure risk assessments

(2019) Olli Karjalainen et al.   Scientific Data

Effect of permafrost thaw on plant and soil fungal community in a boreal forest: Does fungal community change mediate plant productivity response?

(2019) Ursel M. E. Schütte et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Variation of Ice Nucleating Particles in the European Arctic over the Last Centuries

(2019) M. Hartmann et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Changes in the Active, Dead, and Dormant Microbial Community Structure across a Pleistocene Permafrost Chronosequence

(2019) Alexander Burkert et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanistic insight into the uptake and fate of persistent organic pollutants in sea ice

(2019) Jack Garnett et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Permafrost collapse is accelerating carbon release

(2019) Merritt R. Turetsky et al.   NATURE

Rivers across the Siberian Arctic unearth the patterns of carbon release from thawing permafrost

(2019) Birgit Wild et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Carbon and mercury export from the Arctic rivers and response to permafrost degradation

(2019) Cuicui Mu et al.   WATER RESEARCH

Fatty Acid and Hopanoid Adaption to Cold in the Methanotroph Methylovulum psychrotolerans

(2019) Nicole J. Bale et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Seasonal Sources of Whole‐Lake CH 4 and CO 2 Emissions From Interior Alaskan Thermokarst Lakes

(2019) C. D. Elder et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Direct observation of permafrost degradation and rapid soil carbon loss in tundra

(2019) César Plaza et al.   Nature Geoscience

High carbon emissions from thermokarst lakes of Western Siberia

(2019) S. Serikova et al.   Nature Communications

Extremes of summer climate trigger thousands of thermokarst landslides in a High Arctic environment

(2019) Antoni G. Lewkowicz et al.   Nature Communications

Ice-penetrating radar survey of the subsurface debris field at Camp Century, Greenland

(2019) Nanna B. Karlsson et al.   COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

First-trimester maternal concentrations of polyfluoroalkyl substances and fetal growth throughout pregnancy

(2019) Olga Costa et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Fate and Transport of Perfluoroalkyl Substances from Snowpacks into a Lake in the High Arctic of Canada

(2019) John J. MacInnis et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Nighttime Magnetic Perturbation Events Observed in Arctic Canada: 1. Survey and Statistical Analysis

(2019) M. J. Engebretson et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS

Biological Ice-Nucleating Particles Deposited Year-Round in Subtropical Precipitation

(2019) Rachel E. Joyce et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Trace elements and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in terrestrial compartments of Svalbard, Norwegian Arctic

(2019) Shazia N. Aslam et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Abundant pre-industrial carbon detected in Canadian Arctic headwaters: implications for the permafrost carbon feedback

(2018) J F Dean et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Permafrost Stores a Globally Significant Amount of Mercury

(2018) Paul F. Schuster et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Regulate to reduce chemical mixture risk

(2018) Andreas Kortenkamp et al.   SCIENCE

The distribution and trends of persistent organic pollutants and mercury in marine mammals from Canada's Eastern Arctic

(2018) Tanya M. Brown et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Landscape topography structures the soil microbiome in arctic polygonal tundra

(2018) Neslihan Taş et al.   Nature Communications

Climatic influence on anthrax suitability in warming northern latitudes

(2018) Michael G. Walsh et al.   Scientific Reports

Bioconcentration, bioaccumulation, biomagnification and trophic magnification: a modelling perspective

(2018) Donald Mackay et al.   Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts

Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient

(2018) Joanne B. Emerson et al.   Nature Microbiology

Quantitative screening level assessment of human risk from PCBs released in glacial meltwater: Silvretta Glacier, Swiss Alps

(2018) K.R. Miner et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Genome-centric view of carbon processing in thawing permafrost

(2018) Ben J. Woodcroft et al.   NATURE

The influence of global climate change on the environmental fate of anthropogenic pollution released from the permafrost

(2018) Joanna Potapowicz et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

21st-century modeled permafrost carbon emissions accelerated by abrupt thaw beneath lakes

(2018) Katey Walter Anthony et al.   Nature Communications

Human infectious diseases and the changing climate in the Arctic

(2018) Audrey Waits et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Development of perennial thaw zones in boreal hillslopes enhances potential mobilization of permafrost carbon

(2018) Michelle A Walvoord et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Unprecedented Increases in Total and Methyl Mercury Concentrations Downstream of Retrogressive Thaw Slumps in the Western Canadian Arctic

(2018) Kyra A. St. Pierre et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Water, sanitation, pollution, and health in the Arctic

(2018) Pernille Erland Jensen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH

Mining in the Arctic environment – A review from ecological, socioeconomic and legal perspectives

(2018) Anne Tolvanen et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

A screening-level approach to quantifying risk from glacial release of organochlorine pollutants in the Alaskan Arctic

(2018) K. R. Miner et al.   Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Preventing chemical release in hurricanes

(2018) Kimberley Miner et al.   SCIENCE

Degrading permafrost puts Arctic infrastructure at risk by mid-century

(2018) Jan Hjort et al.   Nature Communications

Evidence for persistent organic pollutants released from melting glacier in the central Tibetan Plateau, China

(2017) Jun Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Biomagnification of persistent organic pollutants along a high-altitude aquatic food chain in the Tibetan Plateau: Processes and mechanisms

(2017) Jiao Ren et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Health risk assessment for the consumption of fresh and preserved fish ( Alosa agone ) from Lago di Como (Northern Italy)

(2017) Silvia Quadroni et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Vertical Profiles, Sources, and Transport of PFASs in the Arctic Ocean

(2017) Leo W.Y. Yeung et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Risk of POP mixtures on the Arctic food chain

(2017) Sara Villa et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Back to the future in a petri dish: Origin and impact of resurrected microbes in natural populations

(2017) Shira Houwenhuyse et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Adaptations of archaeal and bacterial membranes to variations in temperature, pH and pressure

(2017) Melvin F. Siliakus et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Poorly known microbial taxa dominate the microbiome of permafrost thaw ponds

(2017) Christian Wurzbacher et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial survival strategies in ancient permafrost: insights from metagenomics

(2017) Rachel Mackelprang et al.   ISME Journal

Monitoring the environmental contamination of Kara Sea and shallow bays of Novaya Zemlya

(2017) Anna V. Travkina et al.   JOURNAL OF RADIOANALYTICAL AND NUCLEAR CHEMISTRY

Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil

(2017) Mukan Ji et al.   NATURE

Radioecological investigations on the Northern Novaya Zemlya Archipelago

(2017) A. Yu. Miroshnikov et al.   OCEANOLOGY

Carbon dioxide sources from Alaska driven by increasing early winter respiration from Arctic tundra

(2017) Róisín Commane et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Legacy and emerging contaminants in meltwater of three Alpine glaciers

(2017) Claudia Ferrario et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Photochemical alteration of organic carbon draining permafrost soils shifts microbial metabolic pathways and stimulates respiration

(2017) Collin P. Ward et al.   Nature Communications

Legacy organochlorine pollutants in glacial watersheds: a review

(2017) K. R. Miner et al.   Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts

Legal immigrants: invasion of alien microbial communities during winter occurring desert dust storms

(2017) Tobias Weil et al.   Microbiome

Permafrost Meta-Omics and Climate Change

(2016) Rachel Mackelprang et al.   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Seasonal accumulation of persistent organic pollutants on a high altitude glacier in the Eastern Alps

(2016) T. Kirchgeorg et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

(2016) Benjamin W Abbott et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Observation-Based Assessment of PBDE Loads in Arctic Ocean Waters

(2016) Joan A. Salvadó et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A Temperate Alpine Glacier as a Reservoir of Polychlorinated Biphenyls: Model Results of Incorporation, Transport, and Release

(2016) Christine Steinlin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Trophic Magnification of Organic Chemicals: A Global Synthesis

(2016) D.M. Walters et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The abandoned ice sheet base at Camp Century, Greenland, in a warming climate

(2016) William Colgan et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Warming of subarctic tundra increases emissions of all three important greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide

(2016) Carolina Voigt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A review of current knowledge and future prospects regarding persistent organic pollutants over the Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Xiaoping Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Interactions of polychlorinated biphenyls and organochlorine pesticides with sedimentary organic matter of retrogressive thaw slump-affected lakes in the tundra uplands adjacent to the Mackenzie Delta, NT, Canada

(2016) David C. Eickmeyer et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

NOAA’s HYSPLIT Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Modeling System

(2015) A. F. Stein et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to Persistent Organic Pollutants and Infant Growth: A Pooled Analysis of Seven European Birth Cohorts

(2015) Nina Iszatt et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES

Climate change and environmental concentrations of POPs: A review

(2015) Martí Nadal et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Polychlorinated Biphenyls in a Temperate Alpine Glacier: 1. Effect of Percolating Meltwater on their Distribution in Glacier Ice

(2015) Pavlina Aneva Pavlova et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Atmospheric Transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants to and from the Arctic under Present-Day and Future Climate

(2015) Mega Octaviani et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Uranium isotopes and dissolved organic carbon in loess permafrost: Modeling the age of ancient ice

(2015) S.A. Ewing et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Long-term anoxia and release of ancient, labile carbon upon thaw of Pleistocene permafrost

(2015) Stephanie A. Ewing et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Persistent Organochlorine Pesticide Exposure Related to a Formerly Used Defense Site on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska: Data from Sentinel Fish and Human Sera

(2015) Samuel Byrne et al.   JOURNAL OF TOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH-PART A-CURRENT ISSUES

Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback

(2015) E. A. G. Schuur et al.   NATURE

Multi-omics of permafrost, active layer and thermokarst bog soil microbiomes

(2015) Jenni Hultman et al.   NATURE

Microbial ecology of the cryosphere: sea ice and glacial habitats

(2015) Antje Boetius et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

In-depth study ofMollivirus sibericum, a new 30,000-y-old giant virus infectingAcanthamoeba

(2015) Matthieu Legendre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mass budget in two high altitude lakes reveals their role as atmospheric PCB sinks

(2015) Yann-Michel Nellier et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Functional Characterization of Bacteria Isolated from Ancient Arctic Soil Exposes Diverse Resistance Mechanisms to Modern Antibiotics

(2015) Gabriel G. Perron et al.   PLoS One

Thaw Settlement Hazard of Permafrost Related to Climate Warming in Alaska

(2014) Eunkyoung Hong et al.   ARCTIC

Trace analysis of hydrophobic micropollutants in aqueous samples using capillary traps

(2014) Pavlina Aneva Pavlova et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Transport of persistent organic pollutants across the human placenta

(2014) Esther Vizcaino et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

The impact of the permafrost carbon feedback on global climate

(2014) Kevin Schaefer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Methylmercury biogeochemistry: a review with special reference to Arctic aquatic ecosystems

(2014) Igor Lehnherr   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Preservation of viral genomes in 700-y-old caribou feces from a subarctic ice patch

(2014) Terry Fei Fan Ng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thirty-thousand-year-old distant relative of giant icosahedral DNA viruses with a pandoravirus morphology

(2014) M. Legendre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Legacy of Arsenic Contamination from Mining and Processing Refractory Gold Ore at Giant Mine, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada

(2014) H. E. Jamieson   Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry

Concentrations of select persistent organic pollutants across pregnancy trimesters in maternal and in cord serum in Trujillo, Peru

(2013) Olorunfemi Adetona et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Associations of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls in visceral vs. subcutaneous adipose tissue with type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance

(2013) Ki-Su Kim et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Deposition History of Polychlorinated Biphenyls to the Lomonosovfonna Glacier, Svalbard: A 209 Congener Analysis

(2013) Olga Garmash et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The microstructure of polar ice. Part I: Highlights from ice core research

(2013) Sérgio H. Faria et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

The Arctic shifts to a new normal

(2013) Martin O. Jeffries et al.   PHYSICS TODAY

When environmental chemicals act like uncontrolled medicine

(2013) Linda S. Birnbaum   TRENDS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM

The influence of glacial meltwater on alpine aquatic ecosystems: a review

(2013) Krista E. H. Slemmons et al.   Environmental Science-Processes & Impacts

Factors Influencing Legacy Pollutant Accumulation in Alpine Osprey: Biology, Topography, Or Melting Glaciers?

(2012) John E. Elliott et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Long-Range Atmospheric Transport of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A Global 3-D Model Analysis Including Evaluation of Arctic Sources

(2012) Carey L. Friedman et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Tracking contaminants in seabirds of Arctic Canada: Temporal and spatial insights

(2012) Mark L. Mallory et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The Shared Antibiotic Resistome of Soil Bacteria and Human Pathogens

(2012) K. J. Forsberg et al.   SCIENCE

Reconstruction of the 1918 Influenza Virus: Unexpected Rewards from the Past

(2012) J. K. Taubenberger et al.   mBio

Chiral persistent organic pollutants as tracers of atmospheric sources and fate: review and prospects for investigating climate change influences

(2012) Terry F. Bidleman et al.   Atmospheric Pollution Research

Effect of recent climate change on Arctic Pb pollution: A comparative study of historical records in lake and peat sediments

(2011) Xiaodong Liu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Microbes in thawing permafrost: the unknown variable in the climate change equation

(2011) David E Graham et al.   ISME Journal

Metagenomic analysis of a permafrost microbial community reveals a rapid response to thaw

(2011) Rachel Mackelprang et al.   NATURE

Antibiotic resistance is ancient

(2011) Vanessa M. D’Costa et al.   NATURE

Revolatilization of persistent organic pollutants in the Arctic induced by climate change

(2011) Jianmin Ma et al.   Nature Climate Change

The extent of the North American boreal zone

(2010) J.P. Brandt   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Microbial characterization of a subzero, hypersaline methane seep in the Canadian High Arctic

(2010) Thomas D Niederberger et al.   ISME Journal

Trophic position influences the efficacy of seabirds as metal biovectors

(2010) N. Michelutti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial genesis, life and death in glacial iceThis article is one of a selection of papers in the Special Issue on Polar and Alpine Microbiology.

(2009) P. Buford Price   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change

(2009) A. David McGuire et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Comparison of the microbial diversity at different depths of the GISP2 Greenland ice core in relationship to deposition climates

(2009) Vanya Miteva et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

HIGH ARCTIC PONDS RECEIVING BIOTRANSPORTED NUTRIENTS FROM A NEARBY SEABIRD COLONY ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO POTENTIALLY TOXIC LOADINGS OF ARSENIC, CADMIUM, AND ZINC

(2009) Samantha K. Brimble et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Comparison of glacial and non-glacial-fed streams to evaluate the loading of persistent organic pollutants through seasonal snow/ice melt

(2008) E.C. Bizzotto et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

U, Pu, and Am Nuclear Signatures of the Thule Hydrogen Bomb Debris

(2008) Mats Eriksson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

On the Mechanism of Mountain Cold-Trapping of Organic Chemicals

(2008) Frank Wania et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY