permafrost
Canada’s permafrost is collapsing thanks to climate change
Canada’s permafrost forms a foundation under roads, pipelines and Indigenous hunting territory, and it’s thawing fast
A Catastrophic Amount of Carbon Could Leak From the Soil By 2050
Climate scientists warn that 55 trillion kilograms of carbon could be released into the atmosphere from Earth's soil by mid-century.
Could more deadly dangers like 'Zombie Anthrax' lie beneath the Arctic Circle's melting ice?
The thawing permafrost could unleash bacteria from a deadly smallpox epidemic in northeastern Siberia, and Cold War-era radioactive material under Greenland's ice sheet.
Is Undead Smallpox Reemerging From Siberian Graves?
Scientists debate the dangers of a new plague emerging from permafrost thaws.
Climate Change Just Opened a 'Gateway to the Underworld' in Siberia
In the heart of Siberia’s boreal forest gapes a monstrous chasm local Yakutians call a "gateway to the underworld."
There Is a New Climate Change Disaster Looming in Northern Canada
The thawing of the permafrost in Northern Canada could be the "carbon bomb" that does us in.
That Lake That Was Going to Fall Off a Cliff in Canada Actually Did
In a video released by the government of the Northwest Territories, the lake can be seen breaching a retaining wall weakened by thawing permafrost and dumping half its contents in a waterfall nearly five stories tall.
Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself with 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria
Is Anatoli Brouchkov for real? Absolutely.
Giant Prehistoric Viruses Could Be Awakened By Oil Drilling in Siberian Permafrost
The discovery of a 30,000-year-old virus buried 100 feet deep in Siberia has awakened fears that gas and oil drilling made easier by climate change could unleash a potentially deadly pathogen.
Obama Says Politicians Who Treat Climate Change Like a Joke Aren't Fit to Lead
The president warned that not enough is being done to avert dangerous global temperature rise, which is heating up the Arctic twice as fast as the rest of the world.
The Ten-Year Mission to Study All the Ways the Arctic Is Doomed
Climate change is wreaking havoc on the Arctic faster than anywhere else on earth, so NASA is leading the charge to find out how bad things really are.
Obama Is Heading to Alaska to Highlight Climate Change — Despite Arctic Drilling Approval
He is the first sitting president to travel to Alaska's Arctic, but is facing criticism from environmentalists for allowing Shell to drill for oil in the Chukchi Sea.