A third of the Arctic is now emitting climate-changing greenhouse gasses after thousands of years of storing them, according ...

More needs to be done to better understand rapidly changing Arctic landscapes that are sinking as climate-driven permafrost ...

Alaska's political leaders are cheering an executive order that aims to boost oil and gas drilling, mining and logging in the ...

The Frozen Ground Under Threat Permafrost is like Earth's ancient freezer, stretching over vast regions, mainly near the ...

Understanding Permafrost and Its Global Distribution Permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, covers an ...

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, a new report shows.

Alaska’s Arctic Ocean shores had been known to hold oil in some capacity since the 1800s. Native Alaskans would cut blocks of tundra to use as fuel for heat, as the frozen grass was soaked with ...

Much of Alaska is underlain by permafrost to some extent, with about one-third of the state consisting of continuous permafrost, where the ground is frozen year-round. "The Arctic and boreal ...

and Alaska. 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, ...

including Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and central Canada. These increases in water on the landscape over time are likely a sign of thawing permafrost. Among the 20 most vulnerable places the ...

which is the most extreme rate of all the permafrost regions. NASA has conducted similar research relying on satellite data through projects like its Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) ...

The Siberian permafrost, which includes areas in northern Canada, Alaska, and Greenland, has been host to other incredible archaeological finds in the past. In fact, the team responsible for the ...