Permafrost soils store large quantities of organic carbon and are often portrayed as a critical tipping element in the Earth system, which, once global warming has reached a certain level, suddenly ...

The Arctic is warming almost four times faster than the rest of the planet. High temperatures are already causing the permanently frozen ground, known as permafrost, to thaw. The carbon contained in ...

Some of the regions changing the fastest due to climate change are in the far north of the U.S. and Canada. According to a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the fastest-changing ...

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The frozen ground beneath our feet holds secrets from thousands of years past. These permanently frozen soils, known as permafrost, cover nearly a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere's land surface.