Permafrost — the permanently frozen ground that underlies much of the Arctic land surface — is thawing in many parts of the Arctic. [1] As permafrost thaws, it releases the powerful greenhouse gas ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...

“We're in that period of time now,” she said, “where the changes are so erratic and so extreme, there's a good chance your sites will either be burned, actively on fire or flooded because the ...

It became a repository for pollen from adjacent forests ... Deciduous forests spread across upland sites that are now permafrost and boreal forest. The climate was perched at the top of a long ...

At the same time, both countries have robust legislation in place that protects the glacial and periglacial ice, which includes permafrost, also known as frozen ground. These ice deposits are usually ...

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 ...

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 ...

The widespread permafrost in this region, where soils currently store twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, is thawing. Scientists are using increasingly detailed climate models to investigate ...

A transdisciplinary, comparative analysis reveals key risks from Arctic permafrost thaw. Communications Earth & Environment , 2025; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-024-01883-w Cite This Page : ...

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 ...