Melting permafrost in the Arctic is releasing toxic mercury into the water system, potentially impacting the food chain, ...

Scientists found toxic mercury being released into Arctic water systems due to melting permafrost. Researchers studying ...

Mercury is released when soil frozen for millennia in permafrost thaws - something climate change is making increasingly ...

Scientists have found new evidence that melting Arctic permafrost could unleash large sums of mercury, a dangerous toxin.

Climate change accelerates the erosion of Alaska's permafrost, releasing trapped carbon and contributing to global warming.

Alaska’s Yukon River may be shuttling much more than just water as it traverses the state and empties into the Bering Sea. A ...

The team of researchers explored caves in Canada to look for clues left in speleothemsmineral deposits accumulated over thousands of years—that might help answer when in the past did Canadian ...

Alaska’s Yukon River may be shuttling much more than just water as it traverses the state and empties into the Bering Sea. A California-led research team has now found evidence that climate ...

As the planet has warmed, scientists have long been concerned about the potential for harmful greenhouse gases to seep out of thawing Arctic permafrost. Recent estimates suggest that by 2100 the ...

The team of researchers explored caves in Canada to look for clues left in speleothemsmineral deposits accumulated over thousands of years—that might help answer when in the past did Canadian ...