According to a recent study published in Nature Geoscience, scientists have found that soil carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions ...

The study provides compelling evidence that soil CO 2 loss becomes stronger upon abrupt permafrost thaw. This means that ...

Some scientists argue that it’s time to rethink the blanket policy of letting blazes burn themselves out in northern ...

The emeritus professor of genomics has managed to revive microorganisms that had been dormant for 48,500 years in the frozen ...

Around 11% of the Earth's land mass is covered by permafrost. But its delicate balance is being threatened by climate change.

Frozen ground, or permafrost, which underlies 15 per cent of the northern hemisphere and contains twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, has shrunk in area by an estimated 7 per cent in 50 years ...

This change in the climate is profoundly affecting permafrost, the continuously frozen soil typical of the far north’s environment. Permafrost is thawing, causing a complex array of impacts on ...

Uquviar Charitie Ropati will be the first Alaska Native woman to graduate from Columbia University’s Civil Engineering ...

The Yup’ik village of Newtok, perched precariously on thawing permafrost at the edge of the rapidly eroding Ninglick River, ...

The researchers compiled many past estimates of greenhouse gas flux in various sections of the northern permafrost region to reveal how the entire area is responding to climate change. They found that ...