The study found that permafrost can thaw during intense wildfires in Alaska and Canada, which contributes to a warming ...

The devastating wildfires in northern Canada in recent years have climate consequences that go far beyond smoke and carbon ...

Few geological features on Earth carry as much climatic weight as permafrost. The frozen soils encircling the Arctic from ...

Northern wildfires can reshape climate for years, sometimes cooling the planet but also releasing carbon from thawing permafrost.

A drone photo shows researchers at a point bar in Huslia in 2022 as part of a multi-year project to examine carbon and mercury levels in eroding river banks. (Madison Douglas) It’s long been clear ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Permafrost and ice wedges have built up over millennia in the Arctic. When they thaw, they destabilize the surrounding landscape.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The permanently frozen ground known as permafrost is retreating northward in the area around Canada's James Bay, a sign of a decades-long regional warming trend, a climate ...

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 ...

An abandoned gold mine in Canada is known as a "sleeping monster" by Indigenous locals – because it contains enough arsenic to kill 1.7 trillion people. Giant Mine, near the subarctic city of ...

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected animal populations. A new study of a catastrophic volcanic eruption during ...

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