Since 2014, a strange and violent phenomenon has been unsettling scientists and local herders across the remote Yamal and ...

Scientists found that thawing permafrost can trigger increased rock weathering, a natural process that absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere. In some regions, this carbon uptake was strong enough to fully ...

Permafrost, or frozen soil, covers some 15 percent of land in the Northern Hemisphere, and thanks to human-driven climate change, it is fueling a vicious warming feedback loop. As rising global ...

Permafrost is frozen ground - a mixture of soil, rock, sand, and ice - that remains at or below 0°C for at least two consecutive years. Permafrost covers about a quarter of the landmass in the ...

Mars may have a network of liquid water flowing through the frozen ground. All buried permafrost, on Earth and beyond, is expected to host narrow veins of liquid, and new calculations show on Mars, ...

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, ...

Scientists gathered samples from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in central Alaska. Tristan Caro Roughly 40,000 years ago, microbes went dormant in a rock-like ...

In the remote wilderness of Siberia, a groundbreaking study has unveiled the explosive origins of massive craters, linking them to subterranean methane eruptions and shifting the narrative on the role ...

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 ...

Deep beneath the Arctic tundra, a dramatic phenomenon is unfolding. Explosive releases of methane gas are carving out massive craters in Siberia, some plunging over 150 feet into the ground—an ...

Researchers believe they have found an explanation for Siberia's mysterious exploding craters — and it has to do with rising global temperatures. Starting in 2012, giant craters were spotted in ...