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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...