Models produce widely varying estimates of how ecosystems in the northern permafrost region are currently affecting the ...

A giant crater in Siberia's permafrost is continuing to expand ... However, the crater was not discovered until 1991 through satellite images. The Batagay crater is the world's largest megaslump.

Located in the remote Siberian wilderness, the Batagay Crater has more than tripled in size over the past 33 years. Satellite ...

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Advertisement Article continues below this ad It’s evidence that permafrost, the long-frozen soil below the surface, is thawing. That’s bad news for the communities built above it – and for ...

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Permafrost, the thick layer of perennially ... and developed a technique to decode high-resolution changes from the images. The team hypothesized that if permafrost was slowing the river's ...

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(Image credit: AleksandrLutcenko via Getty Images) The new study pinpoints pockets of salty water in the permafrost called cryopegs, which lie directly above methane hydrate.

These vivid images, once confined to science fiction and ancient history ... the grassland ecosystem by trampling down trees ...