In the Arctic, permafrost plays a crucial role in building infrastructure. However, as the region warms and permafrost thaws, ...

Byers, University of Colorado Boulder In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures ... By the time the disaster was over, more than 50 people had died. Juneau, ...

To see the melting for myself, I travel to Fairbanks, Alaska, and from there north to Prudhoe Bay, where two cold-adapted scientists have been probing the permafrost. Tom Osterkamp, a geophysicist ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws ... A polar bear inspects a car near Kaktovik, Alaska. Melting sea ice is driving more bears onto land in search of food—just as thawing and flooding ...

A team of researchers published a new study Monday explaining how Alaska's melting permafrost ... will need assistance with emergency water treatment, according to the study authors, as well ...

yet permafrost thaw is not recognized by the federal government as a natural hazard making it harder for people in Alaska to obtain disaster relief funding. In addition, Alaska is decades behind ...

Water from the melting ice often drains into ... build awareness of the flood risk, but the disasters continue. Flooding from inside and thawing permafrost The dramatic nature of glacial lake ...