As the frozen ground warms much faster than expected, it’s reshaping the landscape—and releasing carbon gases that fuel global warming ... across the Arctic. As permafrost laced with buried ...

The researchers started by comparing various global datasets and ... The newly developed map gave a clearer picture of the forests, wetlands, and permafrost areas, which are key elements in ...

YAKUTSK, September 7. /TASS/. Scientists of the Melnikov Permafrost Institute (the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Siberian Branch ) created a permafrost-landscape map for adaptation to the ...

Here, they developed a method to accurately map infrastructure and permafrost thaw risk called High-resolution Arctic Built Infrastructure and Terrain Analysis Tool (HABITAT). The model uses ...

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 ...

Researchers use advanced machine learning techniques and multiple global land ... The newly developed map gave a clearer picture of the forests, wetlands, and permafrost areas, which are key ...

store[ing] nearly 50% of soil carbon of the permafrost ecosystem, equal to nearly 10% of the global terrestrial soil carbon pool," according to Phys.org. "Peatlands are one of the world's largest ...