Canada's Northwest Territories, and Siberia. 20 of the most vulnerable hot spots were home to permafrost, which is rapidly thawing around the Arctic, with others being boreal forests. Map of areas ...

Workshop is 1st step toward creating map of permafrost thaw in Dehcho region Edward Cholo doesn't have to drive too far down the road to find land affected by climate change. Along Highway 1 ...

The polar regions are cold, remote and off-putting, but there are thousands of polar words in English – and not just words ...

The escarpment along the western edge of Fort McPherson, a small hamlet of 700 in the Northwest Territories, cracks and sloughs away amid some of the warmest years on record. The community’s ...

"The Government of Canada and the Inuvialuit people ... our understanding of the decay of submarine permafrost. Two of MBARI's AUVs will map the seafloor in remarkable detail and MBARI's MiniROV ...

Permafrost, a layer of soil that remains frozen year-round, covers an impressive 24% of the Northern Hemisphere. It stretches ...

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 ...

A study conducted in James Bay (northern Canada) showed that over a period of 50 years, the permafrost had retreated 120 kilometers north. Schafer has studied underground temperatures in boreholes ...