Watch as our planet faces a dramatic shift! The melting Arctic is not just a local issue – it impacts us all. 🌍❄️ Let's ...

Permafrost — the permanently frozen ground that underlies much of the Arctic land surface — is thawing in many parts of the Arctic. [1] As permafrost thaws, it releases the powerful greenhouse gas ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...

“We're in that period of time now,” she said, “where the changes are so erratic and so extreme, there's a good chance your sites will either be burned, actively on fire or flooded because the ...

However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate. Featuring keynote speaker IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri ...

The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...

You will examine some of the changes taking place in the Arctic, such as shrinking land ice, thawing permafrost, and more. Finally, you will uncover how the changing Arctic climate is tied to the ...

Settlements below permafrost zones must increasingly expect landslides and mudflows in the years ahead. In this video we show how warming temperatures are slowly thawing permafrost and affecting ...

As warming conditions create new operating pathways in the Arctic and military training increasingly emphasizes proficiency in the cold, the Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and ...