A sweeping new study reveals that as Arctic permafrost thaws, it is dramatically reshaping rivers and releasing vast amounts ...

While snowmelt is a major contributor to river flow, thawing permafrost is becoming increasingly important. Beneath the ...

Permafrost sounds permanent, but there’s a catch: the top portion, called the active layer, freezes and thaws every year. In ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, a team of researchers led by geoscientist Michael Rawlins at the University of Massachusetts ...

“We desperately need more of these land-to-ocean connection studies if we’re to fully grapple with the problem," Rawlins said ...

Thawing permafrost emissions could accelerate climate change as Arctic soils become more permeable, allowing carbon and ...

New data shows how a thawing layer of Arctic permafrost is altering the rivers and seas of the region and contributing to ...

Some Arctic regions regain their "greenness" within a decade of a sudden permafrost collapse, while others can take a century ...

Climate change could be exacerbated by thawing permafrost that releases large amounts of greenhouse gases once it has ...

Comprising only 1% of the world’s ocean water, the Beaufort Sea is an outlying part of the Arctic Ocean, which receives ...

Experiments by University of Leeds researchers, published in Earth's Future, have shown that thawing of permafrost makes it between 25 and 100 times more permeable, allowing more climate change ...