Robyn Barbato, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, drills into subsurface permafrost at the Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in Fox, Alaska.

Alaska’s Yukon River may be shuttling much more than just water as it traverses the state and empties into the Bering Sea. A California-led research team has now found evidence that climate ...

Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when. The Great Read Canada is losing its permafrost to climate ...

Picture a deep freezer suddenly failing on a hot summer day. What happens to everything inside? Now imagine that freezer is the size of Alaska, has been running for thousands of years, and contains ...

Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Most of us know there’s more than one version of English. What English people call a tap, Americans call a faucet; ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Beneath the Arctic tundra lies a biological time capsule of ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost when Earth’s average temperature was 4.5˚ C warmer than today Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was ...

Ancient Arctic caves hold secrets of a warmer past. Mineral deposits show the region was once free of permafrost, ...