Recent findings indicate that the Arctic's traditional role as a planetary cooling agent is faltering, with hotspots and ...

After millennia as a carbon deep-freezer for the planet, regional hotspots and increasingly frequent wildfires in the ...

An inevitable, and observable, consequence is the thawing of permafrost, and there are strong indications that the occurrence of landslides is increasing as consequence. However, there is still ...

When glaciers and ice sheets melt, they can destabilize slopes and reactivate faults, which in turn can trigger landslides and reshape the surface of Earth over long periods of time. Researchers ...

See our Citation Policies for more details about how to structure your data citation. This data set consists of a geo-referenced digital map and attribute data derived from the publication 'Permafrost ...

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 ...

A synthesis of carbon flux and wildfire emissions data from across the Arctic-boreal zone between 2001-2020 found that 34 ...

Infrastructure in permafrost areas is threatened by river bank erosion, Mackenzie River Delta, Canada. Credit: Angus Alunik, 2021 The first comprehensive study examining the social impacts of thawing ...

A while later, scientists became interested and persuaded Shergin to keep digging. After ten years, the mine had reached its present depth of 116 meters, and Yakutsk became known as the cradle of ...

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 ...