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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another. Water from the melting ice often drains ...

Scientists have warned that melting ice ... the polar regions.' Permafrost is a permanently frozen layer below the Earth's surface found in Arctic regions such as Alaska, Siberia and Canada.

Juneau, Alaska ... melting glacier that slowly filled a basin below it until the basin’s ice dam broke. Avalanches, rockfalls and slope failures can also trigger glacial lake outburst floods. These ...

“Scientists discovered in the Arctic Ocean the unique mechanism of water acidification: as a result of permafrost melting, the ancient organic substance gets to the ocean in the form of carbon ...