"Our findings show that permafrost thaw is not only an environmental issue but also a direct challenge to the safety, health, ...

Permafrost is the frozen mix of soil, ice, and rocks that occupies nearly a quarter of the land in the northern hemisphere.

Permafrost thaw can stimulate the release of soil carbon, triggering a positive carbon-climate feedback that may be mediated ...

Six years before the storm known as Halong devastated dozens of Western Alaska villages, a federal report showed 115 ...

A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into life in the Ice Age.

Rapidly thawing permafrost in the Arctic has scientists worried. According to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, the ice that holds the soil together is melting, causing ...

The scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder extracted the permafrost and found the microbes within had " reawakened " and may pose a significant environmental risk, according to Discover ...

A new report just issued by NOAA says September's Arctic sea ice coverage was about 25 percent less than it was between 1981 and 2010. As America's only Arctic state, Alaska today faces unique ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A fragment of a mask that was preserved for hundreds of years in permafrost sat in the muck of a low ...

The solid, 20-kilogram block of hardened snow and ice somehow slides free from my rubber-gloved grasp and drops back down into the long ditch I am excavating in deep snow, landing with a crunch. On my ...