This makes permafrost a significant player in Earth's carbon cycle. Even a slight uptick in global temperatures can ignite ...

As the frozen ground warms much faster than expected, it’s reshaping the landscape—and releasing carbon gases that fuel global warming ... across the Arctic. As permafrost laced with buried ...

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 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 ...

The researchers started by comparing various global datasets and ... The newly developed map gave a clearer picture of the forests, wetlands, and permafrost areas, which are key elements in ...

Researchers use advanced machine learning techniques and multiple global land ... The newly developed map gave a clearer picture of the forests, wetlands, and permafrost areas, which are key ...

They want to study processes on the shelf and to make a 3D map of the submarine permafrost ... planned by the consortium ('Earth's Global Changes: Climate, Ecology, Quality of Life' is involved ...