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Something is thawing beneath Alaska — and the price tag could be $43 trillionAlaska's tundra holds immense frozen carbon stores which are thawing. This thaw releases greenhouse gases, potentially causing significant ...
At about 11,000 feet, a Tibetan Plateau solar farm still used for sheep grazing made nearby soil freeze earlier and thaw laterA solar farm in Tibet has unexpectedly made the ground colder. Researchers found the soil beneath panels stayed frozen for fifty extra days...
12 scientists will drift across the Arctic, locked inside sea ice for 8 months to watch an ocean survive its darkest, coldest seasonA daring expedition is underway as 12 individuals will spend eight months adrift in the Arctic Ocean, encased in ice. This mission, Tara Po...
The Arctic is sitting on a 63-billion-ton carbon secret, and scientists are concernedBeneath the Arctic’s frozen surface lies a hidden carbon reserve of nearly 63 billion tons. As rising temperatures thaw ancient permafrost,...
‘Zombie Worm’ awakens after 24,000 years: Scientists revive a frozen worm that can survive freezing, starvation and even reproduce without partner‘Zombie Worm’ revived by scientists: A 24,000-year-old microscopic worm, a bdelloid rotifer, has been revived from Siberian permafrost, ast...
What Scientists Found Inside a Cave Beneath Greenland’s Ice Is Raising New Climate QuestionsAncient Arctic caves hold secrets of a warmer past. Mineral deposits show the region was once free of permafrost, experiencing much higher ...
Hidden Climate Trigger? What Scientists Found Beneath Our SoilVast carbon reserves lie hidden beneath farms, forests, and frozen Arctic soil. These underground stores, built over centuries, are now und...
Is the Ground Beneath Us Releasing More Carbon Than We Think?Beneath American soil, vast carbon reserves are stored. These underground stores, built over centuries and millennia, are now a focus for s...
From Ice to Green: How Rising Temperatures Are Reshaping the ArcticThe Arctic is changing. Once a land of snow and ice, it is now turning green. Warmer temperatures are causing plants to grow more. Shrubs a...
The Arctic Once Had Palm Trees: What the Fossils RevealFossil evidence from the High Arctic reveals that palm trees and subtropical plants once thrived in the polar region. This occurred during ...
The Arctic Wasn’t Always Frozen: Fossils Reveal a Lost World of Forests, Rhinos and Nesting DinosaursFossil evidence reveals that the Arctic was once a warm, forested region supporting large mammals such as hornless rhinoceroses and dinosau...
Oil’s fair in love and war: How Venezuela, the Arctic and Greenland are rewriting the global energy mapAs 2026 begins, oil is no longer just a traded commodity — it is once again a weapon of geopolitics. From Venezuela’s re-emergence as a str...
Arctic may not have any sea ice in the summers by 2030s, reveals studyThe study is published in peer-reviewed British journal Nature Communications and it was conducted by adjusting the models and scaling them...
Solastalgia & doomism: Brace yourself for the new climate lingo that's here to boggle the mind'Firenados', for example, occur when searing heat and turbulent winds rise above out-of-control forest fires.
How climate change could expose new epidemicsThe Covid-19 pandemic that has swept the globe and claimed over 760,000 lives so far almost certainly came from a wild bat, highlighting th...
3-5°C temperature rise is now ‘locked-in’ for the ArcticEven if the world were to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, winter temperatures in the Arctic would rise 3-5°C by 2050 and 5-...
- Permafrost carbon leak could peak within a few decades: Study
Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) Arctic permafrost's expected gradual thawing due to climate change and the associated influx of greenhouse gases ...
- Arctic permafrost may unleash carbon within decades: NASA
Washington, March 6 (IANS) Permafrost in the coldest northern Arctic -- formerly thought to be at least temporarily shielded from global wa...
- Arctic could be ice-free in summer months, says draft IPCC report
The draft copy of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report says there is a 90-100% chance that the Arctic ice cover will c...
- Economic impact of Arctic melt could amount to 2.4 trillion dollars by 2050
In a new report, scientists have determined that the economic impact of losing the Arctic's climate-cooling services could total a minimum ...