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

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have uncovered the remnants of an ancient glacier, possibly over a million years old, buried within the permafrost of a remote island in the Canadian Arctic.

Yet at this cliff, called Duvanny Yar, the Kolyma had chewed through and exposed what lies beneath: a layer of frozen ground, or permafrost, that is hundreds of feet deep—and warming fast.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

As the RN90 remained closed for several hours, local authorities were forced to set up emergency shelters to accommodate ...