Miner’s research featured in UN Environment Program report
"This unprecedented warming has led to the thawing of vast permafrost areas, which scientists forewarn hold hidden dangers, including massive quantities of methane, a potent greenhouse gas (Miner et al. 2022; Birchall et al. 2023)." Image credit: Navigating New Horizons / UN Environment Programme
Kimberley Miner’s climate change research was referenced in a United Nations Environment Program planetary health and human wellbeing report.
“In recent decades, the Arctic has been warming much faster—four times in fact—than in the rest of the globe; this is a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification (Rantanen et al. 2022). This unprecedented warming has led to the thawing of vast permafrost areas, which scientists forewarn hold hidden dangers, including massive quantities of methane, a potent greenhouse gas (Miner et al. 2022; Birchall et al. 2023). Permafrost degradation could also facilitate the transport of toxic waste (Revich et al. 2022) and radioactive material (Miner et al. 2021) into the environment, endangering ecosystem function and human health.”
“It's been a really hard year in the research community and the Arctic,” Miner said on LinkedIn, “and I can't tell you how much it means to see some of this work gain traction in the policy community.”
