As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws ... I’d like permission to put three dams on every other stream in the Arctic tundra,” Tape said. “That’s what this could be like.” ...

Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but ...

Ground is collapsing and massive lakes are draining in a matter of days. Thawing permafrost is having profound effects on the ...

Boreal forests and Arctic tundra are underlain by millions of square kilometers of permafrost, and scientists are still ...

As soil a couple of feet deep goes from frozen to mush, the release of carbon could push climate change to a tipping point, writer Craig Welch reports in “Arctic permafrost is thawing fast.

These ecologists measured gas flows from permafrost soils in the Arctic tundra—i.e. soils that are continuously frozen for a ...

Permafrost plays an essential role in the Arctic ecosystem by making the ground watertight and maintaining the vast network of wetlands and lakes across the Arctic tundra that provide habitat for ...

Thawing sub-arctic permafrost: Effects on vegetation and methane emissions ... Environment and history of Bol’shezemel’skaya Tundra. Geography of the study area and the history of lake development, p.

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 ...

"Meanwhile, we know that this is not always the case and that nitrous oxide is outgassed at very high rates from special permafrost locations as found in the Arctic or tundra," notes Biasi.