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 ...

Permafrost — the permanently frozen ground that underlies much of the Arctic land surface — is thawing in many parts of the Arctic. [1] As permafrost thaws, it releases the powerful greenhouse gas ...

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.

The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...

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They are common on hillsides and along shorelines. The basic mechanisms of slumps are well described in the permafrost literature. But less well understood is what causes them to form, especially ...