Humanity is not prepared to face viruses that could be released as ice melts and permafrost thaws, Azernews reports.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The next year, summer 2023, Saros returned to find the familiar lakes utterly transformed. “You could see it right away,” she ...

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 ...

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests, and wetlands have become ... “One place where I work in interior Alaska, when the permafrost thaws, the plants grow more so you can sometimes can ...

An international team led by Woodwell Climate Research Center found that a third (34 percent) of the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ)—the treeless tundra ... scientist at the Permafrost Pathways ...