There’s more than one way to make new lakes, for example. The village of Newtok, population 380, is sinking as the permafrost beneath it thaws. On a summer bird hunt, four Yupik boys—from left ...

Permafrost is different. Rather than the woodland, you’re fighting for your life amid the frozen ruins of what were once sprawling cities. Make sure you’ve wrapped up warm, because the Steam ...

When permafrost soils thaw, the microbes find more organic material they can convert. As a result, nitrogen and nitrous oxide can also be outgassed from these soils. Small-scale climate models ...

Evidence of human-caused climate change is mounting across the permafrost extent. The disappearance of large lakes, multiple square miles in size, is one of the most striking examples of recent ...

That’s a problem because the permafrost holds enormous amounts of vulnerable carbon, more than twice as much carbon as is already present in the atmosphere. Some of that carbon is now on the move.

In Permafrost, exploration, resourcefulness, and crafting are the order of the day as players construct intricate shelters from scrap, cultivate crops to stave off hunger, and harness the power of ...

The northern permafrost region, extending just south of the Arctic Circle, represents one of the planet’s most rapidly warming landscapes. Here, climate change is intensifying at a rate two to ...

Ecologist Christina Biasi is exploring the conditions under which tiny organisms contribute to permafrost soils emitting nitrous oxide. Her research could be essential for the development of ...

Stories have surfaced of animals such as polar bears fighting off new diseases, and sometimes losing that fight.