Dalhousie researchers have revealed how Arctic aquifers—permeable layers of the ground that store and transmit water to rivers, lakes and terrestrial ecosystems—behave today and how these vital ...

The Arctic rarely surprises anyone. It’s cold, remote, and famously slow to change. Ice forms, ice melts, repeat. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study shows a growing share of greenhouse gas emissions is coming from natural, unmanaged ecosystems in response to human-caused warming.

A bad day for a baby mammoth is a good day for scientists.

About 670 million people live in high-mountain areas worldwide. Experts sound alarm after mountain collapses without warning: ...

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 ...

Microbes across Earth's coldest regions are becoming more active as glaciers, permafrost and sea ice thaw, accelerating ...

Melting permafrost will release strange microbes into the atmosphere in coming years, scientists believe. They fear that ancient microbes, suspended in natural time capsules of permafrost, sometimes ...

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 ...