Recovery from sudden permafrost collapse ranges from 10 years to a century, study suggests

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Mar 30, 2026, 5:00 am104 pts
Some Arctic regions regain their "greenness" within a decade of a sudden permafrost collapse, while others can take a century or more to recover, researchers report in a new study. The difference is directly related to each site's gross primary productivity, a measure of its photosynthetic capacity, the…

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