RIA Novosti: The emerging permafrost thaw is causing panic. This is understandable in Russia since a large portion of its land is covered in permafrost. Journalists and scientists are coming up with many hair-raising forecasts of an environmental disaster where millions of cubic meters of marsh gas, or methane, are released into the atmosphere. But is the atmosphere in real danger? Field studies prove that the tundra and Arctic lakes do emit more marsh gas than usual because of the …