More information: Adam M. Booth et al, Permafrost and Structural Controls on Holocene Bedrock Landslide Occurrence Around Eyjafjörður, North‐Central Iceland, Journal of Geophysical Research ...

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

When mountain permafrost thaws and glaciers melt, glacial lakes can become lethal flood risks for anyone downstream.

Iceland is a country that was shaped by volcanoes and ice, and where the scars of both are still vivid. Drive out of Reykjavik, and the landscape around you is often a patchwork of volcanic rocks ...

While Iceland isn't the only place in the world to view the northern lights, the Nordic country's location near the Arctic Circle means the light show can be visible for more than 100 nights per year.

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...

Iceland has an impressive number of waterfalls – an estimated 10,000 throughout the country. These falls, known as foss in Icelandic, range in volume from the most powerful waterfall in Europe ...

The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...

Operations manager Gary Larsen points a flashlight on an ice formation within the Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility. (Eve Baker/Fort Wainwright Public Affairs Office) As warming conditions ...

“We're in that period of time now,” she said, “where the changes are so erratic and so extreme, there's a good chance your sites will either be burned, actively on fire or flooded because the ...