Australian National University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. Most of us know there’s more than one version of English. What English people call a tap, Americans call a faucet; ...
Picture a deep freezer suddenly failing on a hot summer day. What happens to everything inside? Now imagine that freezer is the size of Alaska, has been running for thousands of years, and contains ...
Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost when Earth’s average temperature was 4.5˚ C warmer than today Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was ...
Canada is losing its permafrost to climate change. The Indigenous residents of Tuktoyaktuk know they’ll have to move but don’t agree on when. The Great Read Canada is losing its permafrost to climate ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Beneath the Arctic tundra lies a biological time capsule of ...
Ancient Arctic caves hold secrets of a warmer past. Mineral deposits show the region was once free of permafrost, ...