The Frozen Ground Under Threat Permafrost is like Earth's ancient freezer, stretching over vast regions, mainly near the ...

Some of their neighbors have been forced to move into town; thawing permafrost is undermining riverfront houses and making the landscape harder to navigate. One type of permafrost has researchers ...

The first comprehensive study examining the social impacts of thawing permafrost soils across the Arctic. An international ...

When Merritt Turetsky heads north for fieldwork in the Arctic, she holds her breath. “I have no idea what I'm going to find,” said Turetsky, director of the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research ...

The designers determined that they pipe could be buried in three types of ground: permanently thawed soils, bedrock, and some areas of permafrost which, when thawed, were considered unlikely to ...

Melting Arctic permafrost is creating ongoing challenges for communities across the North, and a new study is shedding light ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Permafrost thaw in the Arctic threatens approximately 3 million people by impacting infrastructure, mobility, water quality, food security, and health. It poses ...

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 ...