The Tibetan Plateau hosts the world’s largest permafrost region in the middle and low latitudes. Compared to the high-latitude Arctic permafrost, the permafrost here is thinner, warmer, and more ...

Global warming is heating the Arctic faster than the rest of the planet. Svalbard, an archipelago north of Norway, is warming even faster than the remainder of the Arctic, making it a “canary in a ...

The accelerating thaw of permafrost due to climate change could dramatically increase the risk of wildfires in Arctic and subarctic regions, according to new research published in Nature ...

The melting of permafrost in the Arctic could result in toxic mercury leaching into the waters of Alaskan rivers, putting millions of people at risk. This "giant mercury bomb" lurks within the soils ...

Four years ago, Morris J. Alexie had to move out of the house his father built in Alaska in 1969 because it was sinking into the ground and water was beginning to seep into his home. “The bogs are ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Deep in the frozen ground of the North, a radioactive hazard has lain trapped for millennia. But the U.K. scientist Paul Glover realized some ...

Calgary researchers discovered in the Northwest Territories what they believe is some of the most acidic natural water in the ...