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 ...

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.

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 ...

Researchers say parts of Alaska are warming up to four times faster than other places on Earth. And while intense storms, rapidly eroding coastlines and thawing permafrost wreak havoc on their ...

Alaska Natives have faced warming temperatures ... They are really facing the threats of rising sea levels and the melting of the permafrost, or frozen ground, in that area.

Boris Radosavljevic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Permafrost is a layer of soil or rock that remains completely frozen (at 32 °F or 0 °C or colder) for at least two consecutive years. Significant ...