Map of areas that experienced ... Christina Shintani / Woodwell Climate Research Center Permafrost is thawing due to climate change and the subsequent rise in global temperatures.

With permafrost, there’s just too much we can’t see. It covers an area more than twice the size of the United States, inhabited by half as many people as New York City, in some of the world ...

The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...

Both are caused by a warming global climate. But exactly how these two types of permafrost thaw affect landscapes and local communities, as well as how much additional carbon dioxide and methane they ...

Increasingly thawing permafrost soils not only pose a global threat due to the CO 2 and methane gas stored in them, but also have far-reaching implications for the approximately three million ...

Permafrost is thawing due to climate change and the subsequent rise in global temperatures. Arctic and subarctic regions are warming at roughly twice the global average, and as snow and ice melt ...