Yet at this cliff, called Duvanny Yar, the Kolyma had chewed through and exposed what lies beneath: a layer of frozen ground, or permafrost, that is hundreds of feet deep—and warming fast.

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

It has been called everything from the "gateway to the underworld" to a "tadpole-shaped gash" – and it's eating into the surrounding landscape "like a living thing". Officially known as the ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Permafrost — the permanently frozen ground that underlies much of the Arctic land surface — is thawing in many parts of the Arctic. [1] As permafrost thaws, it releases the powerful greenhouse gas ...

By documenting Alaska's lakes and ponds in unprecedented detail, Levenson and colleagues show where and how water bodies can signal underlying permafrost thaw, providing a step toward a ...

It is known as the oldest permafrost in Siberia and second oldest in the world. New research suggests that the Batagay mega slump’s cliff face is retreating at a rate of 40 feet (12 metres ...

Permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, covers an impressive 24% of the Northern Hemisphere. It stretches across wide swaths of Siberia, Canada, Alaska, and parts of ...