Researchers have made an incredible discovery in the Canadian Arctic: the remains of an ancient glacier that could be more ...

The Kitikmeot Heritage Society is working with archaeologists to excavate sod houses near Cambridge Bay – and collect elders' ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

NUNAVUT – Parts of the Arctic tundra are ... fast-warming Arctic are covered in continuously frozen ground, called permafrost, that in some cases has remained below 0 C for hundreds of thousands ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...

The widespread permafrost in this region, where soils currently store twice as much carbon as the atmosphere, is thawing. Scientists are using increasingly detailed climate models to investigate ...

The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...