How to pronounce“yedoma”in English

And the fact that yedoma is perforated by all those ice wedges turns out to have a pretty devastating downside.

One of the coolest kinds of permafrost is called yedoma, and it’s utterly crucial when it comes to carbon storage.

Over the last two centuries, yedoma has been the subject of much debate amongst scientists.

In addition to being ice rich, yedoma is also carbon rich.

From ground level these look like a network of large polygons, but below this, ice wedges in yedoma can be more than 40 meters deep!