New insights from artificial intelligence about permafrost coverage in the Arctic may soon give policy makers and land managers the high-resolution view they need to predict climate-change-driven ...

The accelerating thaw of permafrost due to climate change could dramatically increase the risk of wildfires in Arctic and subarctic regions, according to new research published in Nature ...

Map depicting current extent of permafrost in Northern Hemisphere (light blue) and projected extent of permafrost in 2070 (dark blue) under RCP 4.5 scenario.

For more than six years, researchers have been working to account for all of the planet’s frozen ground as part of the NUNATARYUK permafrost research project. They’re also going one step further to ...

TASS, October 17. /TASS/. Scientists in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region are developing the region's dynamically changing 'permafrost map.' The project will provide access to data for the current ...

In an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study, an international team examined the social risks for Arctic regions associated with thawing permafrost. They identified five key risks related to ...

(Beyond Pesticides, June 8, 2023) A study published in Nature Communications finds that climate-induced thawing of permafrost (a ground that remains completely frozen for two or more years) threatens ...

Michael A. Rawlins receives funding from The Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. National Science Foundation. Ambarish Karmalkar receives funding from ...

The left panel shows the near-surface permafrost extent (bluish area, overlaid on satellite imagery) estimated by the most commonly used pan-arctic map product for a site in Alaska. The right panel ...