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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...