Picture a deep freezer suddenly failing on a hot summer day. What happens to everything inside? Now imagine that freezer 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 ...

The accelerating thaw of permafrost due to climate change could dramatically increase the risk of wildfires in Arctic and subarctic regions, according to new research published in Nature ...

Permafrost thaw poses multiple risks to local Arctic communities, their livelihoods, infrastructure and environment. A transdisciplinary study led by Umeå University and others has identified key ...

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, ...

Some of the regions changing the fastest due to climate change are in the far north of the U.S. and Canada. According to a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the fastest-changing ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, and communities. Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent ...

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, ...

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 ...