Indie game developer SpaceRocket Games and publisher Toplitz Productions dropped a new demo for their upcoming game Permafrost. The team decided to get a head start on Steam Next Fest by releasing ...

Instead, they were delayed by several thousand years, until permafrost began thawing. The researchers say their findings indicate that thawing permafrost was an important trigger of landslides in ...

Other reasons may include vegetation dieback (the gradual death of plant tissue) and the growing frequency of permafrost thaw. In tundra regions, average annual soil temperatures are trending toward ...

Melting Arctic permafrost is creating ongoing challenges for communities across the North, and a new study is shedding light on how those threats are perceived from region to region. Understanding ...

Permafrost is like Earth's ancient freezer, stretching over vast regions, mainly near the North and South Poles. It holds soil, rocks, and sub-zero water, remaining frozen for two years or more ...

As detailed by Science News, researchers found the remnants of a glacier that could be more than one million years old — possibly the oldest glacier discovered in permafrost (ground that has been ...

This data set consists of a geo-referenced digital map and attribute data derived from the publication 'Permafrost map of Alaska'. The map is presented at a scale of 1 to 2,500,000 and shows the ...

An inevitable, and observable, consequence is the thawing of permafrost, and there are strong indications that the occurrence of landslides is increasing as consequence. However, there is still ...

Instead, they were delayed by several thousand years, until permafrost began thawing. The researchers say their findings indicate that thawing permafrost was an important trigger of landslides in ...

This access road near Toolik Field Station on Alaska’s North Slope shows the effect of ground subsidence. More needs to be done to better understand rapidly changing Arctic landscapes that are ...

For thousands of years, the Arctic’s permafrost has acted as a vast carbon storage system, helping to regulate the planet’s climate. However, a new study published today (January 21) in Nature Climate ...