What is Permafrost? Permafrost is a fascinating geological phenomenon, consisting of ground that remains frozen for at least ...

Both the Argentine and the Chilean governments recognize permafrost as a strategic freshwater reserve which, in times of ...

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 ...

Climate change played a key role in the 'catastrophic' 2023 floods in the Himalayan state of Sikkim in India, a new study ...

The Arctic and other permafrost-covered regions have remained frozen for thousands of years, acting as a natural time capsule ...

Researchers unearthed an ancient glacier in the Canadian Arctic that could help reveal Earth's climatic history.

A study has found that as climate change causes the Arctic permafrost to melt, pathogens may awaken and damage crops. The ...

Based on the current pledges of countries for limiting their emissions of greenhouse gases, global temperatures are projected to reach 2.7 degrees Celsius beyond pre-industrial levels by the end of ...

The widespread permafrost in this region, where soils currently store twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, is thawing. Scientists are using increasingly detailed climate models to investigate ...

Instead, they were delayed by several thousand years, until permafrost began thawing. The researchers say their findings indicate that thawing permafrost was an important trigger of landslides in ...

Increasingly thawing permafrost soils not only pose a global threat due to the CO 2 and methane gas stored in them, but also have far-reaching implications for the approximately three million ...