Localized thawing of permafrost, especially in villages where ... scientists documented a 60-fold increase in massive ground slumps from 1984 to 2013. It topples forests. Merritt Turetsky, an ...

The frozen layers of Earth’s permafrost have long been a mystery, hiding secrets from thousands of years ago. Climate change, ...

The team of researchers explored caves in Canada to look for clues left in speleothemsmineral deposits accumulated over thousands of years—that might help answer when in the past did Canadian ...

soils turn to quicksand and thaw slumps (a type of landslide) must be avoided. In Longyearbyen on Svalbard, the thawing of the permafrost also threatens access to clean drinking water, as the dam ...

S248-S263 (16 pages) Warming climate is thawing the permafrost in arctic and subarctic regions, leading to formation of thermokarst ponds. During the formation and geomorphological succession of these ...

The irony is that this precious equipment is there to measure the very cause of its demise: Abrupt permafrost thaw, where the ice-rich permafrost beneath these Northern landscapes—frozen solid for ...

As our planet continues to warm, the permafrost thaws and the Earth "loosens and slumps". The Siberian collapse ... per year due to permafrost thaw. The collapsed section of the hillside, which ...

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 ...

In December 1970, he released a study in which he explained the damage a hot pipe would inflict upon the permafrost. At a temperature of 158 to 176 degrees, the oil in the pipe would thaw a ...

but factors such as glacial retreat and permafrost thawing may ‘lift the lid’ on this in the future,” explains Dr Thomas Birchall, lead author of the study and researcher at the University ...