Finland's Arctic Lapland region experienced an astonishingly mild winter through the month of  February with the average ...

Sea-ice extent reached a stark new record in February, reaching its all-time minimum extent for the month, with the Arctic ...

As the name suggests, permafrost was long considered to be permanent. But more recently, researchers have come to realize ...

A 770,000-year-old mystery is not something you stumble across every day, and it's making these researchers reconsider some things.

US biotechnology company Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences has a radical proposal: it wants to resurrect the woolly ...

The woolly mammoth could help reduce the thawing process by trampling the ground and knocking down trees. While this is scientifically plausible, it would depend on whether hybrid mammoths could even ...

From unstable slopes to rock falls, thawing permafrost will have many consequences for mountain regions, including the Swiss ...

The melting of glaciers leads to the accumulation of heavy metals in the coastal regions. This affects the kelp-brown macroalgae- as it will lead to the accumulation of heavy metals, which can disrupt ...

Permafrost is the hidden frozen “glue” – a layer formed by ice, rock and soil – that holds icy northern landscapes together.

predominantly located in continuous and island permafrost regions. The SHAP model indicates that PALSAR HV polarization, slope, Sentinel-1 VV polarization, canopy structure index, and digital ...