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

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

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

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.

The acceleration of change in the Arctic due to global warming is transforming the landscape on a year-to-year basis, often ...

A shocking transformation has gripped West Greenland, where thousands of once-pristine blue lakes turned brown after an ...

Between rising temperatures, reduced snow cover, and thawing permafrost, potential ice roads that would enable community access, deliveries of critical supplies, and resource exploration are becoming ...

All of these changes, we can plot them and if we look exponentially, we see catastrophic effects in the next few years, ...

The authors suggest one of the main drivers of the tundra's shift from CO2 absorber to emitter could be thawing permafrost, which covers almost half of Canada's land mass. "This is not something ...

The Global Terrestrial Network for Permafrost (GTN-P) was established in 1999 by the International Permafrost Association to provide long-term field observations of active layer and permafrost thermal ...

See our Citation Policies for more details about how to structure your data citation. The Circum-Arctic permafrost and ground ice map is available via ftp in ESRI Shapefile format and Equal-Area ...