Also required is a keen understanding that the ground beneath whatever gets built — a road, port, school, town or mine — may ...

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

The melting of ice-rich permafrost can destroy the physical foundation of everything above: tundra and forests, houses and roads. In Alaska, permafrost has warmed in response to air temperatures ...

Localized thawing of permafrost, especially in villages where development disturbs the surface and allows heat to penetrate, has eroded shorelines, undermined roads and schools, cracked pipelines ...

The duo, known for chillers such as 'The Black Phone,' will write the script with Derrickson on board to direct.

“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 ...

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

As the name would suggest, permafrost in the far north was long considered to be, well, more or less permanent, emphasizing the stability of the Earth system. But more recently, researchers have come ...

Settlements below permafrost zones must increasingly expect landslides and mudflows in the years ahead. In this video we show how warming temperatures are slowly thawing permafrost and affecting ...

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 ...