The ISSF currently comprises five antennas and is managed by the Canada Centre for Mapping and Earth Observation (CCMEO). The fact that the site is located on permafrost places special demands on ...

Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

At a laboratory in Russia, scientists were dissecting a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago. The calf has […] ...

In regions where permafrost serves as the bedrock for infrastructure, challenges become immediately tangible. Places like Siberia and Alaska have infrastructure—roads, buildings, pipelines ...

If you want to fully understand risk and prepare for hazards, you need to have the full picture Chandi Witharana (left) and ...

a permafrost expert at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, had for years watched the active layer freeze completely by mid-January at some 180 research sites in Alaska. But as those places also ...

The Arctic permafrost thaw is hazardous to the livelihood, safety, health, food security, and the infrastructure of communities living in Arctic regions, an international group of scientists have ...

“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 ...

Many peatlands have been frozen over thousands of years in permafrost with "nearly 20% of the permafrost areas, store[ing] nearly 50% of soil carbon of the permafrost ecosystem, equal to nearly 10 ...

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

Permafrost — the permanently frozen ground that underlies much of the Arctic land surface — is thawing in many parts of the Arctic. [1] As permafrost thaws, it releases the powerful greenhouse gas ...