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 ...

Eventually, the men found that the time-consuming, labor intensive task of corduroying the road and insulating the permafrost below, was their only hope of moving on. Because of the many delays ...

When ice-rich permafrost thaws, the ground will cave in and that was the hazard we used to assess the disaster risk for roads." Previous studies made risk estimates based on data from ...

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 ...

“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 ...

A new study has found that thawing permafrost could affect 193 km of roads, 2,415 households, 903 alpine lakes, and eight hydropower projects in the mountainous region. Permafrost is any type of ...