Recent findings indicate that the Arctic's traditional role as a planetary cooling agent is faltering, with hotspots and ...

Permafrost thaw poses multiple risks to local Arctic communities, their livelihoods, infrastructure and environment. A ...

The Arctic holds vast amounts of carbon, and as permafrost thaws, this carbon can be released into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change. Research indicates that abrupt thawing events can ...

The first comprehensive study examining the social impacts of thawing permafrost soils across the Arctic. An international ...

In an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study, an international team examined the social risks for Arctic regions associated with thawing permafrost. They identified five key risks related to ...

Instead, they were delayed by several thousand years, until permafrost began thawing. The researchers say their findings indicate that thawing permafrost was an important trigger of landslides in ...

Other reasons may include vegetation dieback (the gradual death of plant tissue) and the growing frequency of permafrost thaw. In tundra regions, average annual soil temperatures are trending toward ...

The frozen soil of the Arctic has already started to thaw, triggering the release of more methane and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This climate feedback is well known, but most modelling ...

The team of researchers explored caves in Canada to look for clues left in speleothemsmineral deposits accumulated over thousands of years—that might help answer when in the past did Canadian ...

Permafrost forms mostly where the annual average ... and deeper complications like "abrupt thaw, root deepening and microbial colonization may accelerate the decomposition of this vast amount ...

A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences highlights how the overlapping effects of sea level rise, permafrost thaw subsidence and coastal erosion could result in unprecedented ...

The scientists found that the thawing permafrost posed an increased risk of exposure to infectious diseases and release of contaminants, and interruptions of supply routes. The study has been ...