The above image isn't a heat map, despite its bright colors ... a vast national park in the remote northern region of Alaska. As Arctic permafrost melts, toxic metals leach into several of ...

The Permafrost Tunnel north of Fairbanks, Alaska, was dug in the 1960s and is run by the U.S. Army’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. It is the site of much research into ...

Permafrost temperatures globally have been rising for half a century. On Alaska’s North Slope, they spiked 11 degrees Fahrenheit in 30 years. Localized thawing of permafrost, especially in ...

Caption The left panel shows the near-surface permafrost extent (bluish area, overlaid on satellite imagery) estimated by the most commonly used pan-arctic map product for a site in Alaska. The ...

Lakes are fascinating geographical features, defined as sizable bodies of standing or slowly moving water contained inland.

Joshua Stevens/NASA Red areas are talik, or unfrozen ground above permafrost, expected in the 2050s in five northern Alaska parks. Permafrost thickness varies with climatic conditions and ...

At least 75 of Alaska's brooks and streams have been turning a dirty orange likely due to thawing permafrost, with some rivers so impacted that the discoloration can be seen via satellite ...

did you realize the Trans-Alaska people have put in a request to Secretary of the Interior Hickel to build a pipeline? The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we ...

Permafrost thaw in Kivalina, Alaska, is threatening villages and homes Cracked homes, buckled roads and ruptured pipelines are likely to become common in and near the Arctic as warming ...