Underwater permafrost is a big, gassy wild card for the climate

Grist
By Matt SimonApr 1, 2022, 10:30 am355 pts
This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Around 20,000 years ago, the world was so frigid that massive glaciers sucked up enough water to lower sea levels by 400 feet. As the sea pulled back, newly exposed land froze to form permafrost,…

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