yet permafrost thaw is not recognized by the federal government as a natural hazard making it harder for people in Alaska to obtain disaster relief funding. In addition, Alaska is decades behind ...

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To see the melting for myself, I travel to Fairbanks, Alaska, and from there north to Prudhoe Bay, where two cold-adapted scientists have been probing the permafrost. Tom Osterkamp, a geophysicist ...

By the looks of it, you wouldn’t have said this foal had been buried more than a few weeks, it was that perfectly preserved.

The Alaska Zoo has donated the remains of Mary Lu — a 13-year-old Bactrian camel that passed away on March 21 — to the University of Alaska Museum of the North (UAMN) in Fairbanks. The bones of Lu ...

We didn't have that for Alaska," says Witharana. A home in Point Lay, Alaska that is affected by thawing permafrost. (Photo courtesy of Benjamin Jones) The motivation behind this research stems from ...

The goal is to help identify the fossilized bones of extinct camels that previously inhabited Alaska. UAMN Mammal Collection Manager Aren Gunderson says there is a specific procedure for cleaning ...

Permafrost thaw in Alaska is more than an environmental or infrastructure crisis: it is a rapidly escalating public health disaster. Destabilization of essential infrastructure such as water treatment ...

“Environmental warming is really doing a number on the permafrost,” says Tom Ravens, a civil engineering professor at University of Alaska Anchorage and an expert on the Arctic coast.

Permafrost. Image by Boris Radosavljevic, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Arctic and other permafrost-covered regions ...

This monument made of whale bones is to lost sailors ... feet beneath the surface and goes down, in North Alaska, some 2,000 feet. Globally, permafrost holds an estimated 400 gigatons of methane ...