Learn about a new climate change program called Permafrost Pathways. A new program called Permafrost Pathways has a dual aim of measuring greenhouse gas emissions and supporting community adaptation ...

Winter ice begins to yield near Naluakruk Lake in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska. The polygonal pattern on the tundra forms in areas underlain by permafrost. Credit: Craig McCaa/BLM ...

Permafrost thaw is making the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System bend and buckle, according to the state. Thawing permafrost is compromising part of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which connects crude ...

USGS researchers have been consulting with Alaska Natives on the migration of wild berries to understand how climate change is affecting permafrost. They are now expanding those efforts. Federal ...

Scientists have long assumed that a thick, solid mass of permafrost underpins all of Alaska like the sturdy foundation of a house, stretching from the tundra to the and below the seafloor. But in a ...

From the Southeast rainforest to the Arctic tundra, warming conditions are creating a variety of Alaska landslide hazards, some of them posing extreme hazards to human safety and others creating ...

If you’d asked permafrost researcher Vladimir Romanovsky five years ago if he thought the permafrost of the North Slope of Alaska was in danger of substantial thaw this century because of global ...