Permafrost is like Earth's ancient freezer ... alleviating the impacts of exploiting such oil-rich deposits. Southeast Asia's expansive peatlands stand as serendipitous carbon stores, though ...

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Mountains, which cover 33 million sq km of the Earth’s surface, are crucial for sustaining life on the planet. For instance, ...

Operations manager Gary Larsen points a flashlight on an ice formation within the Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility. (Eve Baker/Fort Wainwright Public Affairs Office) As warming conditions ...

“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 ...

One of these remarkable places is the Arctic Coastal Plain. Whale bone pile, Wainwright, Alaska. Over a decade ago, our ...

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 ...

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 ...

The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...