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A giant crater, 165 feet deep, has recently been discovered on Siberia’s Arctic tundra, raising alarm among scientists. The ...
We stop half a dozen times to take the permafrost's vital signs, trekking out across the scarlet-and-gold tundra, armed with probe, computer and shotgun (in case of wayward grizzlies). When we ...
Boreal forests and Arctic tundra are underlain by millions of square kilometers of permafrost, and scientists are still unsure of how the thawing of this long-frozen soil will affect the climate.
the researchers had to climb down a 12-foot ladder into the icy tundra, then crawl through a tunnel bored within the permafrost. The tunnel was only wide enough for a single person and not high ...
Permafrost’s potential to warm the planet ... Those discoveries led Tape to search photographs for other tundra newcomers. “As soon as I thought about beavers, I seized on it,” he said.
The dire wolf is no longer extinct. Meet the world’s first de-extinct animals. The science of de-extinction is to analyze the ...
On Kotelnyy he’s noticed that as the permafrost thaws and settles each summer, mammoth tusks resting on a layer of ice below begin to peek out of the tundra. “Every year there’s another crop ...
Sea levels are rising. Glaciers are melting. The oceans are both warming and acidifying. Tundra permafrost is thawing, accelerating the warming process by releasing copious quantities of the strong ...
Colossal explosions shake a remote corner of the Siberian tundra, leaving behind massive craters. In Alaska, a huge lake ...
The outbreak began when a team of scientists and documentary film-makers excavated the remains of a woolly mammoth in the frozen Arctic tundra.
Another important aspect the scientists study in the Arctic is how wildfires influence the permafrost. Landscape fires trigger soil erosion processes: the tundra's upper cover, being left without ...
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