Giant Mine, near the subarctic city of Yellowknife, was once one of the biggest gold mines in the Northwest Territories, said ...

The melting of ice-rich permafrost can destroy the physical foundation of everything above: tundra and forests, houses and roads. In Alaska, permafrost has warmed in response to air temperatures ...

The permafrost in its soil has ... spruce trees and lies to the south of the tundra, is a net source of planet-warming methane, the report found. Sea ice cover also continues its long decline.

On Kotelnyy he’s noticed that as the permafrost thaws and settles each summer, mammoth tusks resting on a layer of ice below begin to peek out of the tundra. “Every year there’s another crop ...

And that's just glaciers. There are still the thawing permafrost and melting ice sheets to take into account. All of these, however unpolluted, contain their own microbial worlds. Worlds with ...

1. Superior Insulation The Tundra 45 features PermaFrost™ Insulation, which is pressure-injected to lock in that just-packed temperature. This ensures your ice stays frozen and your drinks stay ...

Permafrost—the ice-rich soil that rests below the surface ... erecting California ranch-style houses across the tundra. Decades later, these houses are deteriorating rapidly.

In the last few years, seasonal transitions in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta have become more disruptive. Now every spring, when ...

Because the Earth is warming, ice and some permafrost is melting - releasing ‘greenhouse gases’ into the atmosphere and contributing to rising sea levels. 1: Tundra biome climates are ...