The pristine Alaskan rivers face an unprecedented threat due to the climate crisis and researchers fear it will get only ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

A seemingly minor trickle of groundwater beneath Alaska’s tundra is quietly releasing vast amounts of carbon into the ocean.

On Alaska’s North Slope ... Over time the buried ice grew into massive wedges enveloped by permafrost soil. Duvanny Yar is shot through with them. Such a structure can unravel swiftly.

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, a new report shows.

More needs to be done to better understand rapidly changing Arctic landscapes that are sinking as climate-driven permafrost ...

Permafrost Laboratory, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks; U.S. Census When archaeologists began digging at Nunalleq in 2009, they hit frozen soil about 18 inches below the ...

Understanding Permafrost and Its Global Distribution Permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, covers an ...

when he first caught wind of the Trans-Alaska pipeline project. Lachenbruch was an expert in permafrost, the rock-like layer of frozen soil just below the thin, insulated cover of soil and vegetation.

In Scandinavia, it reaches a depth of 20 meters, up to several hundred meters in Alaska and up to 1500 meters in Siberia ... According to this, the thawing of the permafrost would lower the water ...