What is Permafrost? Permafrost is a fascinating geological phenomenon, consisting of ground that remains frozen for at least ...

Both the Argentine and the Chilean governments recognize permafrost as a strategic freshwater reserve which, in times of ...

Understanding Permafrost and Its Global Distribution Permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, covers an impressive 24% of the Northern Hemisphere. It stretches across wide swaths of ...

“It’s fast and dramatic, affecting landscapes in unprecedented ways,” Turetsky said. Permafrost, a perpetually frozen layer under the ground surface, contains rocks, soil, sand and, in some cases, ...

with about one-third of the state consisting of continuous permafrost, where the ground is frozen year-round. "The Arctic and boreal regions are made up of diverse ecosystems, and this study ...

The designers determined that they pipe could be buried in three types of ground: permanently thawed soils, bedrock, and some areas of permafrost which, when thawed, were considered unlikely to ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...

After ten years, the mine had reached its present depth of 116 meters, and Yakutsk became known as the cradle of permafrost science. Permanently frozen ground, or permafrost, is a relic of the ...

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 ...

The discovery represents what may be the oldest glacier ice ever found buried in permafrost — ground that has been frozen for at least 2 years straight — in the Arctic, researchers report in ...

As climate change leads to rising temperatures, the stability of structures built on permafrost is increasingly at risk due to the thawing of this frozen ground. Recent research has focused on ...

Like cities and towns across northern and north-eastern Russia, Churapcha is suffering the consequence of climate change thawing the permafrost on which everything is built. This is a Russian ...