This virus, along with several others, had been inactive so far. Scientists hope to study its effects if the climate crisis ...

ALEXANDER: Run-of-the-mill permafrost we generally consider one to two meters deep. Yedoma, on the other hand, can go hundreds of meters deep. That’s an ancient carbon storage that can be ...

According to a Sept. 8 paper published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an iconic Arctic watershed in ...

The Salmon River in Alaska winds for many kilometers through wild forest, tundra, and stunning mountain valleys. Once ...

Greenland is looking more and more like its name — and that's not a good thing.

From the Southeast rainforest to the Arctic tundra, warming conditions are creating a variety of Alaska landslide hazards, ...

A new study reveals how thawing permafrost is transforming dozens of rivers in Alaska, leading to irreversible changes.

When the mercury's rising in your thermometer, it may also be rising in the ocean. In geology, permafrost is defined as any soil that has been frozen for more than two years. In the Northern ...

Scientists are worried about melting Arctic permafrost. When permanently frozen ground turns out to be not so permanent, structures built on permafrost can catastrophically collapse — and the bizarre, ...

Fossil fuel companies drilling into the Norwegian permafrost may be unleashing a hidden monster. After analyzing 18 hydrocarbon exploration wells in Svalbard, an archipelago located between Norway and ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. To enter the Fox permafrost tunnel—one of the only places in the world dedicated to the firsthand scientific ...