A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ocean, where it can contribute to climate change, according to new ...

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 ...

A transdisciplinary, comparative analysis reveals key risks from Arctic permafrost thaw. Communications Earth & Environment , 2025; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01883-w Cite This Page : ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Utilizing over three decades of geospatial data, researchers pinpointed areas where permafrost, critical to the global climate, is in jeopardy due to increased warming and drying, highlighting the ...

Researchers are now attempting to integrate new strategies to monitor permafrost and prevent its further melting. Researchers with the European Space Agency’s Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project ...

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 ...

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 ...