A Siberian man recently found an unbelievably well-preserved Ice Age woolly rhino beneath the Arctic permafrost about 50,000 ...

The Frozen Ground Under Threat Permafrost is like Earth's ancient freezer, stretching over vast regions, mainly near the North and South Poles. It holds soil, rocks, and sub-zero water, remaining ...

Other reasons may include vegetation dieback (the gradual death of plant tissue) and the growing frequency of permafrost thaw. In tundra regions, average annual soil temperatures are trending toward ...

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 ...

The authors suggest one of the main drivers of the tundra’s shift from CO2 absorber to emitter could be thawing permafrost, which covers almost half of Canada’s land mass. “This is not ...

Carbon in the ocean can lead to higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the air, which contributes to climate change. The ...

The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to the 2024 Arctic ...

As the tundra continues to thaw and the flow of ... and potentially some permafrost thaw -- from the total groundwater discharge. Previous studies of groundwater discharge in the Artic included ...

"However, permafrost was a common denominator—the ... and 99 percent of Eurasian tundra saw "significant" warming. Some hotspots across Siberia and northern Canada became drier during this ...

The next year, summer 2023, Saros returned to find the familiar lakes utterly transformed. “You could see it right away,” she says. The water bodies had gone from crystal clear and blue–their rocky ...