Climate change: eyes on the permafrost

24.06.2021

The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emphasizes, as if there were still any need for it that without taking measures to reduce climate-changing gas emissions we will certainly face serious repercussions. It is therefore essential to plan policies that combat climate change while, at the same time, monitor the health of our planet.

Geologist Jacopo Boaga from the Department of Geosciences of the University of Padua explains, "In terms of climate change, the periglacial areas that are studied are very important as these are the polar areas found at high latitudes and altitudes. For example, my colleagues from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest and Landscape Research WSL and I are examining permafrost, which is a portion of permanently frozen ground. We are examining the areas of South-Western Switzerland with a new geophysical methodology that uses electromagnetic tools."

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