permafrost

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A new study offers one of the clearest pictures yet of what happens as Arctic permafrost thaws.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

It stretches northward into desolate permafrost regions flush with “oil sands” that produce about nine times as much crude as Alaska.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

"We gained access to exceptionally well-preserved mammoth tissues unearthed from the Siberian permafrost, which we hoped would still contain RNA molecules frozen in time," adds Emilio Mármol.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2025

Canada and Russia, where large amounts of ice and permafrost are melting, are losing the most fresh water.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

Because the frozen permafrost was just a half meter beneath the active layer of soil, all the water on the tundra stayed near the surface.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz