Thawing permafrost is rapidly transforming dozens of Arctic streams into acidic, metal-laden waterways, according to new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Permafrost and ice wedges have built up over millennia in the Arctic. When they thaw, they destabilize the surrounding landscape.

Rapidly thawing permafrost in the Arctic has scientists worried. According to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, the ice that holds the soil together is melting, causing ...

At Eielson Air Force Base, military engineers must contend with a problem lurking beneath the ground: permafrost thaw. At Eielson Air Force Base, military engineers must contend with a problem lurking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spruce and birch trees are seen tilting along the edge Stevens Pond on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus on Sept. 18, 2022 ...

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, ...

The permafrost capping the top of the world is irreversibly thawing and within two decades will release more carbon than it now absorbs, scientists calculate in a new study that makes this dire ...

Around 20,000 years ago, the world was so frigid that massive glaciers sucked up enough water to lower sea levels by 400 feet. As the sea pulled back, newly exposed land froze to form permafrost, a ...