Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

The permafrost in Switzerland's Alps is the warmest since records began, the Swiss Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday. Permafrost is sub-surface soil that remains at freezing temperature or ...

Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the Arctic Ocean when Earth’s ...

In the Arctic, one of the primary paths for water to flow is along water tracks, stream-like features that fill with and ...

In the Swiss Alpine resort of Kandersteg, officials have been closely monitoring a deteriorating mountain peak that towers ...

At present there is 880 Gt of carbon in the atmosphere, 300 Gt of which has been added by humans. So thawing permafrost does not, in this model, appear to be a serious problem this century.

Permafrost is thawing faster and faster in the Swiss Alps. What’s more, its temperature has never been higher than in the 2024 hydrological year, according to the latest data from the Permos ...

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 ...

The Science of Drunken Trees Torre Jorgenson, a scientist in Fairbanks, Alaska, who studies permafrost, says melting of ice crystals below the ground can cause slumps as large as 10 meters (33 feet).

The permafrost in Switzerland's Alps is the warmest since records began, the Swiss Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday. Permafrost is sub-surface soil that remains at freezing temperature or below ...

With its melting glaciers, thawing permafrost and floating sea ice that gets tougher to see from its northern shores each summer, Alaska is the poster state for global warming. Things are changing ...