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 ...

If you want to fully understand risk and prepare for hazards, you need to have the full picture Chandi Witharana (left) and PhD ...

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 ...

Buildings, roads, and pipelines built atop permafrost are susceptible to damage as their formerly stable base unravels. Picture building a skyscraper on a foundation that slowly turns to jelly ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Upcoming survival-crafting game Permafrost just got a new trailer at the Future Games Show spring showcase, and when a promotional video starts with the moon itself being blown to smithereens ...

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 ...

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 ...