Nestled high in the remote mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Fenghuoshan Tunnel has earned its place as the highest tunnel in the world. Sitting at an elevation of 16,000 feet above sea ...

The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered many remarkable, ancient specimens from the Siberian permafrost ... 23 feet below ground inside a Siberian ice tunnel. The unique specimen was discovered by local ...

China has several options for building its tunnel under the Bering Strait ... the Chinese line would likely have to be built on permafrost, and cut through some pretty rugged mountain ranges.

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 ...

20 of the most vulnerable hot spots were home to permafrost, which is rapidly thawing around the Arctic, with others being boreal forests. Map of areas that experienced ecosystem climate stress in ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Permafrost thaw in the Arctic threatens approximately 3 million people by impacting infrastructure, mobility, water quality, food security, and health. It poses ...