Parts of Alaska are warming up to four times faster than most of the rest of the world. That's forcing tough choices for ...

In Alaska, the land along riverbanks often consists of permafrost—a mix of soil, gravel, and sand, often bonded with ice. A team of Texas researchers, in collaboration with experts from other ...

Researchers developed a method that uses high-resolution satellite imagery and deep machine learning to double the mapped ...

Each year, the home sinks six inches. When the marshy land engulfed the original flooring from her childhood home, Chase laid ...

Daniel Ksepka, the curator of a new display at the Bruce Museum, said he focused on Alaska because it is “on the front line” ...

yet permafrost thaw is not recognized by the federal government as a natural hazard making it harder for people in Alaska to obtain disaster relief funding. In addition, Alaska is decades behind ...

More information: Elias Manos et al, Permafrost thaw-related infrastructure damage costs in Alaska are projected to double under medium and high emission scenarios, Communications Earth ...

The PBS program Frontline investigates the impacts of climate change in rural, coastal Alaska communities, where warming is ...

To see the melting for myself, I travel to Fairbanks, Alaska, and from there north to Prudhoe Bay, where two cold-adapted scientists have been probing the permafrost. Tom Osterkamp, a geophysicist ...

is prevented from seeping into the soil by permafrost, the layer of frozen earth that begins about two feet beneath the surface and goes down, in North Alaska, some 2,000 feet. Globally ...

University of Connecticut on Apr 23, 2025 Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science. Resear ...