In western Siberia, a rare kind of gas explosion is carving deep, near vertical craters in the tundra. Some of these massive ...

Scientists warn warming permafrost is a tipping point: alpine sinks weaken, Arctic plants thrive, and methane and nitrous oxide climb.

Researchers found that ice can trigger stronger chemical reactions than liquid water, dissolving iron minerals in extreme ...

Permafrost, ground frozen for at least two years underlying the cold Arctic and alpine regions of the Northern Hemisphere, ...

How does climate change influence the speed that Arctic coastal regions are retreating? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as ...

Permafrost and ice wedges have built up over millennia in the Arctic. When they thaw, they destabilize the surrounding landscape. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images Across ...

The Arctic permafrost thaw is hazardous to the livelihood, safety, health, food security, and the infrastructure of communities living in Arctic regions, an international group of scientists have ...

Scientists with government agencies and academia depend on each other and the public to help keep track of risky spots ...

As the Arctic gets warmer, large quantities of greenhouse gas could be released from the sediment at the bottom of lakes, a source that has previously been overlooked. The frozen soil of the Arctic ...

TUKTOYAKTUK, Canada — On the shore of Lake Tiktalik in Canada’s Western Arctic, the thawing permafrost had set off two huge landslides into the water, leaving yawning craters on the tundra. These ...

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