A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic, forming a huge jagged hole hundreds of feet wide. Since ...

One vast hole appearing in Siberia's frozen ground is a head-scratcher; 20 of them exploding through more than 500 feet of ...

We wanted to find out how much carbon and nitrogen is being released from the northern permafrost. Here’s the region’s first ...

Boreal forests and Arctic tundra are underlain by millions of square kilometers of permafrost, and scientists are still ...

Intermittently frozen ground is near-surface soil that freezes from one to 15 days per year. One-fourth of the land in the Northern Hemisphere has an underground layer that stays frozen all year long.

Ecologist Christina Biasi is exploring the conditions under which tiny organisms contribute to permafrost soils emitting ...

In the remote Siberian tundra, the ground itself has begun to explode. Since 2014, more than 20 mysterious craters, each ...

It should be noted that the Arctic communities have no typical mercury-producing industries. What is permafrost? As the name suggests, it is a layer of soil and rock, with some extending 1,500 metres ...

Climate models are critical for anticipating future changes caused by greenhouse gas emissions, helping guide policy ...

The Birch claims were staked over skarn copper and soil gold anomalies in 2022 by Lapie Mining Inc., and subsequently ...

Find how thawing permafrost releases greenhouse gases, amplifying global warming and impacting climate change.

Permafrost is ground that stays frozen. It may contain soil, peat, rocks and ice. Often, remnants of ancient plants and animals such as the now extinct woolly mamooth can also be seen. In such ...