The heat also caused permafrost — frozen soil that stores a significant amount of organic carbon ... lake dynamics in the region. Further studies can also help scientists examine browning ...

A shocking transformation has gripped West Greenland, where thousands of once-pristine blue lakes turned brown after an ...

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon ...

Lakes in Greenland Suffer From 'Extreme Climate' Conditions, Experts Note Decline in Water Quality and Carbon Emission In fall 2022, West Greenland faced record heat and precipitation, which possibly ...

This transformation has implications far beyond Greenland, as the sudden browning and carbon release ... The influx of dissolved organic carbon and nutrients has the potential to disrupt water ...

The next year, summer 2023, Saros returned to find the familiar lakes utterly transformed. “You could see it right away,” she says. The water bodies had gone from crystal clear and blue–their rocky ...

Wildfires can increase lake carbon concentrations by up to double, mostly in the form of dissolved organic carbon, according to analyses of carbon in fire-disturbed and control lakes across Quebec ...