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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...