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 ...

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 ...

Permafrost has a central role in the sustainable development of the Arctic region. The thaw of permafrost is set to damage buildings and roads, leading to tens of billions of euros in additional costs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists are turning to a combination of data collected from the air, land, and space to get a more complete picture of how climate change is affecting the planet’s frozen regions. Trapped within ...

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 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 ...

Picture a deep freezer suddenly failing on a hot summer day. What happens to everything inside? Now imagine that freezer is the size of Alaska, has been running for thousands of years, and contains ...

IN NOVEMBER 2019, the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine held a workshop to discuss an emerging disease threat. Not covid-19: they were a couple of months too early for that.