The cliff face at the top of the formation, or headwall, stands 180 feet (55 m) high. Related: Methane 'kitchens' in Siberia's permafrost form mounds that can erupt, creating giant craters When it ...

The slump’s headwall, the cliff at the top end of the formation, is 180 feet (55 meters) high. Permafrost is ground that has been permanently frozen for at least two years. Studying it provides ...

During the summertime, the sound of water pouring over the cliff sides is interrupted every ... or a widening chasm caused by permafrost thaw and rapid land subsidence–basically a slow motion ...

The dramatic Batagaika crater formation – which has earned it the nicknames of 'gateway to the underworld' and 'gateway to Hell' – has steep cliff-like edges revealing permafrost estimated to ...

A new study suggests its cliff face, or headwall, is retreating at a rate of 12 metres (40 feet) per year due to permafrost thaw. The collapsed section of the hillside, which fell to 55 metres ...

But it has the potential to be just as catastrophic. This threat is called Melting Permafrost. This video can help you understand why melting Permafrost is such an enormous problem: https ...

That means the world’s permafrost will disappear almost entirely by 2100 or earlier, releasing “hundreds of gigatonnes” of the 800-1,000 gigatonnes of primordial CO₂ trapped in the ice ...

WASHINGTON — Deadly pathogens lying dormant in centuries-old Arctic permafrost could become the latest threat from global climate change. The potential release of the pathogens has seized the ...

His efforts to detect viruses frozen in permafrost were partly inspired by a team of Russian scientists who in 2012 revived a wildflower from a 30,000-year-old seed tissue found in a squirrel’s ...

Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when. The Great Read Canada is losing its permafrost to ...

The cliff face at the top of the formation, or headwall, stands 180 feet (55 m) high. The headwall of the gateway is also retreating at a rate of 40 feet (12 m) per year due to permafrost thaw ...