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

The hole tripled in size between 1991 and 2018 ... and that's quickly thawing the permafrost, which is a thick layer of soil ...

deputy director of Massachusetts’s Woods Hole Research Center, who has studied the carbon cycle in both Alaska and Cherskiy. “I’ve largely imagined permafrost thaw as a slow and steady ...

One vast hole appearing in Siberia's frozen ground is a head-scratcher; 20 of them exploding through more than 500 feet of ...

“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 ...

Born in London, Simon is a multimedia journalist who has worked for www.swissinfo.ch since 2006. He speaks French, German and Spanish and focuses on science, technology and innovation issues.

The rapid climate change documented on Svalbard over the past 30-40 years has had a major impact on the 17th and 18th century ...

Some of the oldest mammoth fossils have been hidden in the permafrost for centuries. Today the permafrost is rapidly thawing as a result of climate change, and fossils are washing into the Adycha ...

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 ...

This permafrost was usually a mixture of sand ... support members] and every single one of those had a 24-inch hole drilled for it and every single one of them had a qualified person analyzing ...

A large crater in Siberia is getting bigger due to the way permafrost interacts with the environment. It is helping scientists understand more about past climates and how the permafrost is ...

For my Ph.D. research I explored how permafrost thaw in ancient Appalachia controlled landscape form and erosion rates. When I am not digging holes and dating old dirt in our backyard, I use remotely ...