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 ...

Permafrost—ground that has been permanently frozen for two or more years—makes up a large part of the Earth, around 15% of the Northern Hemisphere. Permafrost is important for our climate, containing ...

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 ...

Researchers have developed a machine learning-based ensemble approach to quantify fire-induced thaw settlement across the entire Tanana Flats in Alaska, which encompasses more than 3 million acres.

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 ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Grist. You can subscribe to its weekly newsletter here. Kathy Lenniger was running her sled dog team one day along her usual route in Fairbanks when she suddenly ...

"Soviet permafrost experts have participated in many joint experiments, on many occasions they have "pulled up" the Chinese counterparts, built up the level of studies in geocryology," Mikhail ...

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