Permafrost—ground that remains frozen year-round—is capped by a few feet of dirt and plant detritus. Called the active layer, this soil normally thaws each summer and refreezes in winter ...

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 ...

"In Sweden, permafrost lands are important as soil carbon reservoirs and for traditional land use practices, such as reindeer herding. Like in other regions of the Arctic, permafrost thaw is ...

A significant number of these climate-stressed areas are characterized by permafrost — soil that remains frozen throughout the year. These regions have experienced dramatic warming and drying trends ...

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 ...

See our Citation Policies for more details about how to structure your data citation. This data set consists of a circumpolar map of dominant soil characteristics, with a scale of 1:10,000,000, ...

Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management-Ministry of Education, Northern Forest Fire Management Key Laboratory of the State Forestry, College of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, ...

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 ...

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 ...

30 years of soil temperature, air temperature, wind speed, and infrared radiation data collected by the 10 LTER stations. “We were blown away to find that not only were winters getting warmer — the ...