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How does climate change influence the speed that Arctic coastal regions are retreating? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as ...

Rapidly thawing permafrost in the Arctic has scientists worried. According to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, the ice that holds the soil together is melting, causing ...

The Climate Shift Index (CSI), Climate Central’s daily temperature attribution system, applies the latest peer-reviewed methodology to map the influence of climate change on temperatures across the ...

Permafrost thaw is expected to impose costs of $37 billion to $51 billion to Alaska roads and buildings through the middle of the century, according to a newly published study. The calculated toll, ...

Anna Liljedahl on a research trip on Jarvis Glacier in the eastern Alaska range. Liljedahl is working to install a weather station on the glacier to model glacial melt. (Courtesy Todd Paris/UAF) With ...

A method is described for measuring root and rhizome growth along temperature gradients in the field and under controlled conditions. Wedgeshaped Plexiglas sod boxes equipped with thermocouples are ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Deep in the frozen ground of the North, a radioactive hazard has lain trapped for millennia. But the U.K. scientist Paul Glover realized some ...