Forty millennia after they went dormant in Arctic ice, microscopic life forms in Alaska have stirred again, and the planet is ...

Permafrost and ice wedges have built up over millennia in the Arctic. When they thaw, they destabilize the surrounding landscape. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images Across ...

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Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to ...

An abandoned house, seen on Aug. 2, 2022, teeters on the edge of a cliff in Utqiagvik that has eroded away because of permafrost thaw. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon) Permafrost thaw is expected ...

A drone photo shows researchers at a point bar in Huslia in 2022 as part of a multi-year project to examine carbon and mercury levels in eroding river banks. (Madison Douglas) It’s long been clear ...

Wilson Twitchell's house is sinking. Twitchell and his wife, Bertha, are raising seven children in their small home in Kasigluk, a Yup'ik village of about 450 people in Southwest Alaska. These days, ...

Melting permafrost in the Arctic is releasing toxic mercury into the water system, potentially impacting the food chain, scientists say. Arctic permafrost is melting at rapid rates, potentially ...

Alaska's melting permafrost is dumping toxic metals into the state's rivers, turning them bright orange and making the water highly acidic. The contaminated rivers are so vibrant they can be seen from ...

We can’t see them, but there are more microbes — tiny fungi, bacteria, worms and other living things — in a teaspoon of soil than there are people on Earth. Hungry as you and me, those microbes gobble ...

Permafrost thaw is expected to impose costs of $37 billion to $51 billion to Alaska roads and buildings through the middle of the century, according to a newly published study. The calculated toll, ...