Elevating safety is the priority. Researchers sound alarm on growing hazards at popular tourism spots: '[Tourists] may behave ...

The permafrost-related challenges could pose an expensive complication for Red Dog: One idea Teck is considering is a ...

Permafrost and ice wedges have built up over millennia in the Arctic. When they thaw, they destabilize the surrounding landscape. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images Across ...

Russia's economy is suffering not only from sanctions and the war in Ukraine. Permafrost in regions critical to Russia's ...

Wildfires get headlines. Floods get funding. But Canada’s most disruptive climate risk may be hiding underground ...

Scientists are turning to a combination of data collected from the air, land, and space to get a more complete picture of how climate change is affecting the planet’s frozen regions. Trapped within ...

Over the past 30 years, the depth of seasonal thawing of the upper permafrost layer in Russia has increased from 45 to 70 cm, ...

Permafrost soils store large quantities of organic carbon and are often portrayed as a critical tipping element in the Earth system, which, once global warming has reached a certain level, suddenly ...

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The permafrost capping the top of the world is irreversibly thawing and within two decades will release more carbon than it now absorbs, scientists calculate in a new study that makes this dire ...