20 of the most vulnerable hot spots were home to permafrost, which is rapidly thawing around the Arctic, with others being boreal forests. Map of areas that experienced ecosystem climate stress in ...

The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Permafrost thaw in the Arctic threatens approximately 3 million people by impacting infrastructure, mobility, water quality, food security, and health. It poses ...