There’s more than one way to make new lakes, for example. The village of Newtok, population 380, is sinking as the permafrost beneath it thaws. On a summer bird hunt, four Yupik boys—from left ...

As with other examples, the consequences are both ecological and atmospheric. The maritime environment, once reliant on a stable permafrost layer, faces significant disruptions. Like knocking over ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

“We're in that period of time now,” she said, “where the changes are so erratic and so extreme, there's a good chance your sites will either be burned, actively on fire or flooded because the ...

For example, the Arctic has warmed nearly four times faster than has the global average since 1979. Thawing permafrost would act as a positive feedback to warming—adding to global warming via ...

In 2016, for example, anthrax spores escaped from an animal carcass that had been frozen in the Siberian permafrost for 75 years, leaving dozens hospitalized and one child dead. Yet the bigger ...

A baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" was dissected by Russian scientists at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March 27, pictures show.

Mercury can be toxic and cause severe health consequences in high concentrations. Melting permafrost could also lead to other ecological consequences that threaten humans and the ecosystem.

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 ...

In the Arctic, permafrost plays a crucial role in building infrastructure. However, as the region warms and permafrost thaws, infrastructure is threatened as the ground shifts beneath the built ...