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

Understanding Permafrost and Its Global Distribution Permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, covers an ...

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 ...

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

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

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

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

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 ...

"The most climate-stressed regions all contained permafrost, which is vulnerable to thaw as temperatures rise," researcher Sue Natali said.

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, a new report shows.

After ten years, the mine had reached its present depth of 116 meters, and Yakutsk became known as the cradle of permafrost science. Permanently frozen ground, or permafrost, is a relic of the last ...

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon ...