Permafrost ecosystems, which are permanently frozen ground found primarily in polar regions, are significantly affected by climate change. As global temperatures rise, permafrost is beginning to ...

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 designers determined that they pipe could be buried in three types of ground: permanently thawed soils, bedrock, and some areas of permafrost which, when thawed, were considered unlikely to ...

The discovery represents what may be the oldest glacier ice ever found buried in permafrost — ground that has been frozen for at least 2 years straight — in the Arctic, researchers report in ...

Like cities and towns across northern and north-eastern Russia, Churapcha is suffering the consequence of climate change thawing the permafrost on which everything is built. This is a Russian ...

Yana was found in the Batagaika crater, the world's largest permafrost (ground that is permanently frozen) crater, by people living nearby. The residents "were in the right place at the right time ...