In 1973, Elden Johnson was a young engineer working on one of the most ambitious and uncertain projects in the world — an 800-mile steel pipeline that carried warm oil over frozen ground. Decades ...

Arctic scientists, engineers and residents are all affected by permafrost thaw, but the lens through which they look at it is different. For scientists, it’s about understanding the process of thawing ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau houses China’s largest permafrost region, where highways have served for over seven decades. However, recent decades have seen rapid warming (0.35°C/decade, twice the global ...

Tugce Baser, professor in Engineering, is leading a team of researchers that was just awarded $7.5 million from the Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. MURI is an ...

The frozen soil in Alaska known as permafrost is gradually thawing in many areas because the Arctic region is “warming at a pace three to four times faster than the rest of Earth,” said Bob Bolton, ...

At Eielson Air Force Base, military engineers must contend with a problem lurking beneath the ground: permafrost thaw. At Eielson Air Force Base, military engineers must contend with a problem lurking ...