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 ...

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Rapidly thawing permafrost in the Arctic has scientists worried. According to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, the ice that holds the soil together is melting, causing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Permafrost is thawing across the Arctic, releasing microbes and organic materials that have been trapped in the frozen ground for ...

Research biologists with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers discovered 26 new microbial species that could help the ...

Fossil fuel companies drilling into the Norwegian permafrost may be unleashing a hidden monster. After analyzing 18 hydrocarbon exploration wells in Svalbard, an archipelago located between Norway and ...

Scientists are worried about melting Arctic permafrost. When permanently frozen ground turns out to be not so permanent, structures built on permafrost can catastrophically collapse — and the bizarre, ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. To enter the Fox permafrost tunnel—one of the only places in the world dedicated to the firsthand scientific ...

Melting permafrost cliffs near Zyryanka, Russia are crumbling into the Kolyma River, unleashing tons of organic soil sediments that can release CO2 and methane to the atmosphere. Analyzing those ...

At Eielson Air Force Base, military engineers must contend with a problem lurking beneath the ground: permafrost thaw. At Eielson Air Force Base, military engineers must contend with a problem lurking ...