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

A German court on Monday resumes hearing a landmark case brought by a Peruvian farmer who argues that the German energy giant ...

Thawing permafrost can lead to the mobilization of contaminants, affecting drinking water quality and food safety in Arctic ...

The new model estimated the permafrost area for the Northern Hemisphere for 2010 to 2015 to be 14.4 million square kilometers, containing 563 gigatons (Gt) of carbon in the latter year.

From unstable slopes to rock falls, thawing permafrost will have many consequences for mountain regions, including the Swiss ...

Peatlands are "terrestrial wetland ecosystems in which waterlogged conditions prevent plant material from fully decomposing," per the International Peatland Society. They are located on every ...

Siberian Anthrax outbreak wasn’t just a freak accident—it was a warning shot. Thawing permafrost had awakened something ...

Redesigning the Pipeline With 75% of the 800-mile pipeline passing through permafrost terrain, the engineers came up with three principal redesign plans to fit the needs of each particular area.

The rotifers were frozen in permafrost in a long-term cryptobiotic state. Lessons from these and other revived organisms could help farms on Mars. We promise this isn’t as sinister as it sounds: ...

Thawing permafrost can shift erosion rates, vegetation growth, and soil permeability, which can cause lakes to form, grow, and drain. To examine how the relationship between lake area and the ...

“But we don’t know precisely where they are.” With permafrost, there’s just too much we can’t see. It covers an area more than twice the size of the United States, inhabited by half as ...

involves mapping unfrozen permafrost areas and modeling temperature fields in soils in the city, approaches to location of observation wells and geophysical profiles to monitor the temperature and ...