“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 ...

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 ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...

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