Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An abandoned house, seen on Aug. 2, 2022, teeters on the edge of a cliff in Utqiagvik that has eroded away because of permafrost ...

Landslides, storm-driven floods, infrastructure-damaging permafrost thaw and intensifying wildfires are among the expensive ...

The deadly landslide that crashed through the outskirts of Wrangell on the night of Nov. 20, 2023, is seen from the air on the following day. The landslide killed six people and blocked a major road, ...

When scientists Patrick Sullivan and Roman Dial were heading to a remote area in the Brooks Range in 2019 to map the spread of woody plants there, they were looking forward to seeing a celebrated ...

BETHEL, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska village of Kongiganak's cemetery has begun to sink as the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta's permafrost thaws. Some villages in the area have stopped burying their dead because ...

Forty millennia after they went dormant in Arctic ice, microscopic life forms in Alaska have stirred again, and the planet is already feeling the consequences. In the span of roughly six months, what ...

Deep below the surface of some of the planet’s northernmost wilderness, the soil and rock has been frozen for millions of years. It’s called permafrost, and in central Alaska just south of the Arctic ...

Permafrost thaw is expected to impose costs of $37 billion to $51 billion to Alaska roads and buildings through the middle of the century, according to a newly published study. The calculated toll, ...

Scientists with government agencies and academia depend on each other and the public to help keep track of risky spots From the Southeast rainforest to the Arctic tundra, warming conditions are ...

Tom Douglas of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory drills into subsurface permafrost under Alaska to study microbe warming. Shared by Tristan Caro Deep below the surface of some of ...