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 ...

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.

Some 5% of Switzerland’s national territory is made up of permafrost, mostly in terrain covered by rock debris and on cliff walls at high altitudes. In comparison, the proportion covered by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

As warming conditions create new operating pathways in the Arctic and military training increasingly emphasizes proficiency in the cold, the Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and ...