By Associated Press and Mark Prigg For Dailymail.com
Published: 13:02 GMT, 16 January 2019 | Updated: 18:53 GMT, 16 January 2019
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Scientists say the world's permafrost is getting warmer, with temperatures increasing by an average of 0.3 degrees Celsius (0.54 Fahrenheit) over a decade.
A study published Wednesday found the biggest rise in Siberia, where frozen soil temperatures rose by 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.62 Fahrenheit) between 2007 and 2016.
Researchers working on the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost collected usable data for the entire period from 123 boreholes in the Arctic, Antarctic and high mountain ranges of Europe and Central Asia.
Researchers working on the Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost collected usable data for the entire period from 123 boreholes in the Arctic, Antarctic and high mountain ranges of Europe and Central Asia. Pictured, Lake and ponds at the foothills of the Brooks Range, Alaska that were studied.
Permafrost is soil that has been frozen for at least two years.
As a result of this prolonged cryogenic state, the land stores large amounts of carbon and other nutrients from organic matter.
It represents a 'large carbon reservoir', according to scientists, which is slowly released into the atmosphere as the permafrost thaws.
The temperature rose at 71 sites, sank at 12 and remained unchanged at 40.
Scientists say the increases track global warming generally.
They noted that thawing permafrost - already recorded at five of the sites - contains organic matter that can release greenhouse gases, further stoking climate change.
'All this data tells us that the permafrost isn't simply warming on a local and regional scale, but worldwide and at
