Fire season is approaching in the massive Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge in east Alaska, where fires have long been...
permafrost
At a time when the mighty woolly mammoth roamed the Earth, some 46,000 years ago, a minuscule pair of roundworms...
Watch: World's largest permafrost crater in Russia As the world experiences the hottest summer on record, scientists are concerned the...
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The Arctic—that remote, largely undisturbed, 5.5 million square miles of frozen terrain—is heating up fast. In fact, it’s warming nearly...
In 2010, Brad St. Pierre and his wife, Christine, moved from California to Fairbanks, Alaska, to work as farmers. “People...
A new publication and interactive map summarise the current state of knowledge on the risks posed by permafrost soils --...
More areas of year-round unfrozen ground have begun dotting Interior and Northwest Alaska and will continue to increase in extent...
The result is the worrisome image shown above—a massive sinkhole indicating that the subsea permafrost has thawed and collapsed. This...
Researchers warn that permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia are much closer to a climatic tipping point than previous...