Living 10 years not far away from Kilpisjärvi - didn't know there's permafrost. Everyday we learn something new. Thank you DW.

What a great Finnish take on it! Been to Finland many times, what a fascinating country and pragmatic people. And thank you DW for this film. Best wishes from Poland to you all!

Here in Brazil the Pantanal wetlands, probably the largest in the world, are burning and leave only 10% of original water.

Best of luck to Finland. Unfortunately here, in Australia, our governments listen to donors, not scientists.

Who knew bogs could be this interesting! Thanks DW!

We live in a world where some multi billionaires are destroying the world and the media is getting paid to show that the common people are doing it 😂😂

Anthrax can last a very long time even in ordinary soils. Scary to think of what's in the permafrost.

It was a great scientific research document about wetlands in Finland 🇫🇮 . Important of wetlands ecosystems to absorption of C02 and CH4 ....thank you ( DW ) documentary channel from sharing

Finland has no permafrost. Some places can have 10 to 50 years frost inside vetlands areas. They eventually smelt. Palsa-suo is one example.

Thanks DW well informative need more channels like yours

This is first time i hear they study this in finland. And i life in finland. Wtf

We turned a haven on Earth, into a toxic wasteland. Shame.

Wetlands, my beloved

Really good documentaries, I'm glad more people can learn about the importance of wetlands

This is really good. Well edited with a deliberate pace and quite informative. DW Documentaries are some of the best.

such a great documentary, thanks. Learned so much

Mind blowing documentary 👌 🙌 👏

Thank you Suomi !

Thanks for the efforts DW team.

Thank you for the great doccie as always

An extremely well presented climate - ecosystem documentary; super educational and informative. Thank you DW for an important video. In New Zealand where I live the following is true "Since the mid-19th century, New Zealand has lost about 90% of its wetland areas due to draining for dairy farming. Many remaining wetlands are also degraded due to pollution, grazing, drainage and presence of invasive plants" (Wikipedia). Unfortunately, contrary to European perception, New Zealand is not so much a actively managing its environment being more concerned with agricultural exports , originally developed to feed the British as part of its empire. In the1980s in particular with the full implentation neoliberal economic principles embedded in a strongly capitalist system, dairy, beef, and lamb exporting together with other forms of 'industrial agriculture' have decimated the flora and fauna of the landscape and biome. Similarly with the oceans within the country's EEZ. A sad state of affairs which looks set to continue apace.

That's us, humans that seize an opportunity to do good.

1/3 of the country is swamps/wetland. When i was in the army, so often when we were walking the ground just squished in and was full of water, almost like a half swamp. im glad i was one of the few who used rubber boots instead if military boots.

Beautiful visuals

They always say it's not too late. But we're in overshoot.

Waterlogged wetlands produces methane and CO2. (2C + 2H2O = CH4 + CO2), but if drained it produces CO2 (C+O2 = CO2). In some wetlands this is a yearly cycle that creates lots of ghg's. But in other areas it is too dry for large methane emissions. This means if you raise watertable in dried wetlands you get lots of methane emissions (some estimates says more than they will absorb in 1000 years). So you have to be careful where to raise watertable. You may see Finlands methane emissions from the drained swamps from the satellite measurements. Near Vaasa this becomes visible from space and it is one of the worst areas in the world. These wetland and even forest emissions are why Finland is currently struggling with limiting emissions. Previously forests were counted as carbon sinks, but they have become a carbon source. Similar things can be seen globally. Our forests are turning to a carbon source.

informative article...............thank you all

How did you achieve that smooth camera movement in this video?

Forget carbon. If the permafrost melts, we lose a major part of the global heatsink.

Great pronunciation ❤

The climate is changing and there's not a single thing we can do about. But that won't stop the governments from increasing taxes and forcing EVs on everyone.

It's complicated, but it's good to know this is being studied.

Beautiful!

The counterplot of land is to grow vegetation and store carbon. Human beings are more focused on trading between one another than letting the forest and fields be.

First thing strikes after noticing the word "permafrost" is web series The Last Ship😬😷

We have much arctic wetlands here in Canada as well. (Trivia: methane is pronounced here as 'meth', not as 'meeth')

Im going to pursue the environmental science course 😃

There is no permafrost in Finland.

Since the 1980s, a decrease in air pollution has led to a partial reversal of the dimming trend, sometimes referred to as global brightening. This global brightening had contributed to the acceleration of global warming, which began in the 1990s. In 1990, the IPCC First Assessment Report acknowledged that "Human-made aerosols, from sulphur emitted largely in fossil fuel combustion can modify clouds and this may act to lower temperatures", while "a decrease in emissions of sulphur might be expected to increase global temperatures". In 2020, COVID-19 lockdowns provided a notable "natural experiment", as there had been a marked decline in sulfate and black carbon emissions caused by the curtailed road traffic and industrial output. That decline did have a detectable warming impact: it was estimated to have increased global temperatures by 0.01-0.02 °C (0.018-0.036 °F) initially and up to 0.03 °C (0.054 °F) by 2023, before disappearing. Regionally, the lockdowns were estimated to increase temperatures by 0.05-0.15 °C (0.090-0.270 °F) in eastern China over January-March, and then by 0.04-0.07 °C (0.072-0.126 °F) over Europe, eastern United States, and South Asia in March-May, with the peak impact of 0.3 °C (0.54 °F) in some regions of the United States and Russia.

Silver linning, more wetlands could lead to more commercially navigable rivers, in an area that might not go bellow 0⁰c in winter, and not much above 20⁰c in summer, by that time. Aka, perfect climate for human habitation.

what a good documentary

As a finn I'm pretty sceptical there are any noyeworthy permafrosts here. Thumbnail sure isn't.

32:29 There is already a study to this topic from AGU, 03 April 2024 "The Net GHG Balance and Budget of the Permafrost Region (2000-2020) From Ecosystem Flux Upscaling", that says, northern permafrost is a net greenhouse gas emitter. Since Finland is part of the northern permafrost region and has similar ecosystem dynamics as the studied areas, it is likely that Finnish permafrost will also become a source of greenhouse gases.

great work ♥♥♥

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If there is a possibility to encounter with dangerous viruses like anthrax why they are touching the soil samples with bare hands? Wouldn't we need some precautions here like masks and gloves?

Do you think that vegetation of a larger size will start to move into these areas as frost melts?

Don't accidentally close your eyes @6:22...

The Scientists tugging on the pipe getting it up out of the ground and on the end one of then has a hurt back :D . They should have studied archimedes :D archimedes would have told the to use leverage and making them their live so much easier. even just a plate on the ground, so that it doesnt sink in, a weldec metal rod on it straight up and on top maybe just a horzontal bar welded on for theyr pliers to sit on and get them leverage should be enough 🙂you could totaly get fancyer with an adjustable height, but it also really must be still lightweight i think.

Thank you DW.

I think we need to be clearer about temporary and permanent carbon sinks. Insert a forest into a desert, and carbon will be captured. But once in place, it is carbon neutral. Peat bogs, on the other hand, continue to extract more and more carbon as they get deeper.. Similarly, methane is a one-off accelerant for around 200 years, after which it converts to CO2 in the atmosphere.

The Earth has times of freezing ( ice age) and times of melting. This has been going on for thousands of years' and we cannot control it. We are in a melting stage right now, but in the future we will have a freezing period and we cannot fix that either.

So from the soil samples in the northern wetlands, it was warmer and more humid prior to the Little Ice Age. Then it became permafrost and now it’s humid again so moss can grow. Sounds like the climate changed way before the 1850s.

I'm a Finn and in school they never told that there are permafrost in Finland at all. I googled this and yes - in Finland there are hardly any permafrost at all. Already in 2003 in one news article is said (in Finnish) that you can hardly find any permafrost in Finland and it's really rare. Even the climate 20 years ago didn't support permafrost in Finland. So sorry. I'm not watching your documentary.

35:41 -" we will see if the predictive models we designed come true" 37:10 as they have been focusing on this 1 crack in the peat, she states, "we do not know if peat has come to the end of its natural lifecycle "or...+ bit later " we do get these methane bombs,but its very slow"

"Finland's permafrost" You should check your sources.

"Old methane"... Well, methane freezes at -182C, so nope, it is not frozen inside permafrost. More likely the permafrost has created lids, bubbles and other chambers that has taken methane in them. Similar things have been seen in nature, specially when water penetrates the lid and methane begins to bubble through. Some most potent methane levels have been found at lake shores where the lid punctures have happened. These lids may contain methane from very large areas.

They should already be planting trees to capture this carbon and take advantage of the rising temperature.

not pemafrost anymore..... it's now simply frost.

Good

It is so horrific, my worst nightmares are coming reality

If you care about global warming due to greenhouse hydrocarbons, first look to the fossil fuel and global arms rackets.

Taylor Swift private jet is doing all too well 😂😂😂

Very interesting.

Thank you for bringing this topic up. As a Fin I've heard so much about drying the swamp areas. It's been like the method for growing wood and to get more farmland and excavating peat for energy and potting soil. We just can't handle it like it used to be in yr.1300. Bit more people on planet. Don't buy peat for soil and see who in your political arena demands rights to drain the swamp.

Perhaps commence a campaign against atmospheric hydrocarbon with the fossil fuel corporations and the trail of destruction they have wrought and are wreaking?

The new business.

Very important topic. Thank you to DW. Best entomology and zoology greetings from Ukraine.❤😮❤🦋🐛🐞🦋

"How 'nature' can speed up Climate Change" ..they made a little mistake in the headline. Humans... you know

Carbon? I think you meant methane

DW's shadow ban bot has the thinnest skin on all of KZfaq.

We still have permafrost?

Is a frozen land a wetland ? It is what it is ?Wouldn't a better title be Melting Permafrost.

Things thaw out a bit in Siberia too, come summer. And these are good times: wetlands are crucibles of life, teeming with all sorts of small things that help support larger ecosystems. Birds need food when migrating, etc.

In India, many natural wetlands were converted into fish breeding fields, resulting in the loss of its natural ecosystem, which was previously rich with lotus plants and birds 😢.

Grow more trees and less vehicle emissions is a start!

All of the paid comments thanking DW. we need an ice age.

It’s the earth ,we need all the countries big or small, people , rich or poor to participate with this climate changes. It’s not too late to plant trees all over the world. Billionaires need to participate too, besides this is the only planet that they can reside along with their offsprings.

Great as ever 👏 ❤

Another great video to watch is by PBS's NOVA - Arctic Sinkholes!

WROOOOOONG QUEEEEEEESTION!

40:55 "the message from science is clear: it's not too late". The message from economists is equally clear: grow, grow, grow! The global co2, ch4, n20 concentrations keep going up year after year.

We in New Zealand are rejuvenating our wetlands too as sea levels are slowly rising 🕊🌊🌏😇

Climate change will be an ecological opportunity for several species of animals, birds, fish and insects, perhaps even producing new species, accelerating the natural evolution of some of them. But none of this is true for our species. We are sedentary, we depend on ecological stability to produce food on a large scale and our societies are very fragile and cannot withstand the intense tensions produced by widespread hunger.

The untold importance of permafrost is the enormous amount of heat energy being absorbed by the melting 6mm of the 11% of Earth's land surface (57M sq. mi.). 1 pound of ice absorbs 144 BTUs in melting. The bigger story is the 1.2 trillion tons of melting global ice annually, 3.3 B daily, all while sopping-up the heat energy equivalent of 20 Hiroshima yield nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND, each yielding 63 trillion BTUs. Carbon is important, although the 1 trillion tons of water vapor rising into the atmosphere daily and making the largest GHG contribution, is more important in Earth's Energy Imbalance.

Beautiful footage ❤❤❤

It is 250 degrees above the atmosphere, only 76 degrees on the surface. 174 degrees of solar heat gone, blocked out by the CO2 and other “greenhouse gases”. Yes, they keep some heat in, about 20 degrees, but they block out 194 degrees for a net temperature of 174. Gilbert Plass is the father of CO2 warming. His paper in 1955 THE CARBON DIOXIDE THEORY OF CLIMATE CHANGE started all this idiocy. The first sentence of the Abstract for his papers states: “The most recent calculations of the infra-red flux in the region of the 15 micron CO2, band show that the average surface temperature of the earth increases 3.6” C if the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is doubled and decreases 3.8’ C if the CO2 amount is halved, provided that no other factors change which influence the radiation balance.” You get warming ONLY if added CO2 does not change the radiation balance, meaning the heat entering does not fall with added CO2. Before satellites, all scientists worked from the assumption that the sun mostly produced visible light and little heat. That visible light warmed the earth as the levels of CO2 and water vapor blocked out all the sun’s heat. Adding CO2 will not block out more incoming Sun heat as the was so little coming in to to begin with. But this is wrong. Heat is the majority of the sun’s radiation. 30% of the sun’s heat makes it past the atmosphere, so adding more CO2 does change the radiation balance. Added CO2 blocks out more sun heat cooling the earth and reversing the greenhouse effect! Which is what Plass’s paper said. Plass assumed that added CO2 did not change the radiation balance, so added CO2 created a warmer earth, but he was wrong, added CO2 created a cooler earth. 250 above, only 76 degrees below. Cooler earth hotter atmosphere. The Troposphere is getting warmer with added CO2, not the surface. The CO2 in the troposphere is absorbing more incoming sun heat and getting warmer. We are getting warmer, but that is because the Little Ice Age (LIA), ended in 1850. The Earth has been warming up since then. Snow has been melting and the oceans have been warming up. With less and less cold left over from the LIA the warming is accelerating. We are going back to the Earth that existed in the last Inter-Glacial Period when Iceland was baren of ice and the seas were 26 feet higher than today. 20,000 years ago the seas were 110 feet lower than today. This is how it goes on the Earth, warm to cold, low seas to high seas. This is just the first time mankind has had the education and intelligence to understand what is happening. Neanderthals lived through the last Ice Age but they didn’t know there was an ice age, it was just the way it was. Earlier hominids had no idea that they were in an inter-glacial age. All they knew was it was it was warm. Plass’s work is on the internet just google and read it for yourself, you only need to read the first sentence in the abstract.

#savesoil #ecosia

This is Good. It's too cold in Finland.

had to thaw out sometime.....was unfrozen before....its dirt.....and will freeze again....grow up!

Planetary astrometry tells us what average temperature a planet will have once we know the gases in the atmosphere. Carl Sagan explained this to the US Congress in 1985. That increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will increase the average temperature of a planet was known in the 1800’s. The Navies of the world are already dealing with ocean level rise because of the location of their bases. Go argue with your country’s admirals and see how far you get. Climate scientists are very conservative in their projections, things are much worse. Already saw a winter tourist destination deal with a snowless February, rip the snowmobile dealers and ski slopes, no record of anything like that before in an area that is used to February daily temperatures ranging from -20 to 25 F. Minimum of 15 degrees higher then normal. Including temperatures since 1990 is a biased normal.

Check 31:20-32:40its old methane". + "No one can say ,If this has cooling or heating effect" +"This is a pilot study " .

natural carbon circulation does not equal human carbon over-use and degradation

We are doomed.

Global vegetation cover increased by 30% in the last 50 years. Increased CO2 also reduced plants water requirements significantly causing hot and cold deserts to shrink. NASA reported the following: "The greening over the past 33 years reported in this study is equivalent to adding a green continent about two-times the size of mainland USA 18 million km2". Another Harvard University study reported: "contrary to the prevailing view that forest area has declined globally - tree cover has increased by 2.24 million km2 (+7.1% relative to the 1982 level). This overall net gain is the result of a net loss in the tropics being outweighed by a net gain in the extratropics. Global bare ground cover has decreased by 1.16 million km2 (−3.1%), most notably in agricultural regions in Asia." As you can see climate crisis has far more positive effects than negative, not just for humans, but for the entire biosphere.

So what do you suggest?.. Another Ice Age?.

Slow down the weather? Ain’t gonna happen.

Excuse me? Is this William from Help I Sexted My Boss narrating?

If the world were one country, reducing inequality would, up to a certain point, reduce production and therefore emissions without reducing living quality. Doesn’t work though if multiple countries are economically competing with each other and none can afford to significantly reduce its production in the name of saving the climate. Saving the climate is a lost cause in a capitalist world.

Wow carbon bots at it hard in the comment section