The Alaskan Tundra is another hotspot rapidly ... it also jeopardizes the country's infrastructure. Buildings, roads, and pipelines built atop permafrost are susceptible to damage as their ...

Over the last ten years, strange craters have torn open the icy ground of Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula. These gaping holes, ...

Permafrost also preserves a variety of prehistoric plants and animals that used to call the tundra their home ... Because placing a building directly atop permafrost can raise the temperature ...

A tundra island near Kasigluk erodes, exposing thawing permafrost. Two months after ... of the boardwalks that connects the community’s buildings. “When we first built that, we had to step ...

Giant Mine, near the subarctic city of Yellowknife, was once one of the biggest gold mines in the Northwest Territories, said The Wall Street Journal. The "unwanted by-product" of five decades of ...

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We jumped between grassy tussocks sprouting up from the tundra and came to a spot ... solutions to avoid the worst effects of permafrost thaw on buildings, industrial facilities, or even whole ...

Building and drilling into Arctic ... have had to move because of permafrost melt. The extraordinarily sensitive nature of Arctic tundra ecosystems is one of the key reasons many environmentalists ...

Landscape fires trigger soil erosion processes: the tundra's upper cover ... The potential damage to buildings and structures from the permafrost melting in the Russian Federation's Arctic ...

Although this region, which includes the tundra ... the entire permafrost region and provides 50% more information compared to a network with the 27 Russian sites removed. Building 27 new sites ...

Scientists were already in general agreement the craters form when gases trapped beneath the tundra ... on methane building up in cavities in the upper levels of the permafrost, before the ...