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

The alarming rate at which planet earth is warming is playing havoc with the once pristine natural environments such as 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 ...

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 ...

Hazards At all observed sites, the depth of the active layer—the surface layer of soil that thaws in summer and refreezes in winter—has increased by up to several meters over the past two ...

The permafrost in Switzerland's Alps is the warmest since records began, the Swiss Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.

TWO 14,000-year-old mummified “puppies” have been discovered with their fur still intact and food still in their stomachs.

In Yellowknife, we had the Giant, Con, Rycon, Negus and Akaitcho mines, plus just outside of town the Gold Lake and Crestaurum mines. So, there are lots of shafts and portals to the underground that ...

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

Dug right into the top of a mountain is the Sphinx Observatory, the highest facility of its kind in Europe. It's here that ...

Some climate models have predicted that most permafrost could melt by the end of the century. Jorgenson thinks it will take longer, since soil layers above the frozen ground are good insulators ...

In ice‐free areas, permafrost persists with a pronounced gradient in active layer thickness, influenced by local factors including snow cover, soil properties, and topographical variation.