This makes permafrost a significant player in Earth's carbon cycle. Even a slight uptick in global temperatures can ignite ...

The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...

They want to study processes on the shelf and to make a 3D map of the submarine permafrost ... planned by the consortium ('Earth's Global Changes: Climate, Ecology, Quality of Life' is involved ...