The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...

Understanding Permafrost and Its Global Distribution Permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, covers an impressive 24% of the Northern Hemisphere. It stretches across wide swaths of ...

Researchers have made an incredible discovery in the Canadian Arctic: the remains of an ancient glacier that could be more ...

Both the Argentine and the Chilean governments recognize permafrost as a strategic freshwater reserve which, in times of ...

What is Permafrost? Permafrost is a fascinating geological phenomenon, consisting of ground that remains frozen for at least ...

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After ten years, the mine had reached its present depth of 116 meters, and Yakutsk became known as the cradle of permafrost science. Permanently frozen ground, or permafrost, is a relic of the ...

But instead of liquid water, all he found was frozen ground. Shergin gave up at a depth of 15 meters. A while later, scientists became interested and persuaded Shergin to keep digging. After ten years ...

The study suggests one of the main drivers of that shift could be thawing permafrost, frozen ground that covers almost half of Canada’s land mass and in some areas has remained below zero ...