Ice-wedge polygons, the trough patterns of chalkland 2, and the largest stone polygons and stripes are generally accepted as requiring permafrost. Less reliable features are involutions ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...

By Ben Aris in Berlin The Arctic experienced record high temperatures this winter as warming accelerated again and is now ...

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 ...

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

Permafrost melting in Kashmir Himalaya poses environmental threats, affecting roads, households, lakes, and hydropower ...

Arctic permafrost thaw endangers the livelihoods, security, health, and food stability of the populations residing in these northern regions.

The irony is that this precious equipment is there to measure the very cause of its demise: Abrupt permafrost thaw, where the ice-rich permafrost beneath these Northern landscapes—frozen solid for ...

Melissa Ward Jones discusses research focused on understanding the interactions of permafrost thaw and agriculture ...

Permafrost is organic matter that's been frozen ... That might not sound like much, but say goodbye to that mini European ice age, and even rivers and lakes around the world.

The Arctic permafrost thaw is hazardous to the livelihood, safety, health, food security, and the infrastructure of communities living in Arctic regions, an international group of scientists have ...