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

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

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

Beneath Svalbard’s permafrost, millions of cubic meters of methane are trapped — and scientists have now learned that it can migrate beneath the cold seal of the permafrost and escape. A large-scale ...

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).

Some parts of Greenland's coast are eroding by up to 65 feet each year. These changes are not just affecting landscapes. Thawing permafrost — the frozen ground that once protected communities and ...

According to a new study by the Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT), the permafrost in the Swiss Alps has never been as warm as it was in the hydrological year 2024, which began on October 1, 2023 and ...

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 ...

Selecting an appropriate reaction model for hydrate dissociation in porous media is essential for precisely predicting hydrate decomposition dynamics. The impact of ice on the dissociation of hydrates ...

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 ...

Permafrost underlies approximately a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere and is changing amidst a warming climate. Thawed permafrost can enter water bodies through top-down thaw, thermokarst erosion, ...