See our Citation Policies for more details about how to structure your data citation. This data set consists of a geo-referenced digital map and attribute data derived from the publication 'Permafrost ...

At the same time, both countries have robust legislation in place that protects the glacial and periglacial ice, which includes permafrost, also known as frozen ground. These ice deposits are usually ...

Forest ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of wooded areas, including rainforest, deciduous and evergreen, temperate and boreal forest. It includes the community ecology of the ...

According to the report, the journey began back in 2009, when geomorphologist Daniel Fortier and his colleagues investigated landslides triggered by melting permafrost. They found layered bodies of ...

When I was drinking coffee with a cab-driving-author friend of the same vintage last week, he said of my occupation: “It’s the best job in Alaska.” After a few seconds of pondering, I nodded.  It has ...

Research Centre for Smart Urban Resilience and Firefighting, Department of Building Environment and Energy Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon 999077, Hong Kong SAR ...

But with climate change, our ice, snow and permafrost is melting. The dark surfaces it leaves behind absorb ... Impacts vary in different kinds of forests. Sub-Arctic boreal forests are likely to be ...

The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...

A pair of ancient nematodes or microscopic roundworms that lived in the Pleistocene era, when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth, have been revived by scientists. The surprising discovery ...

Extreme heat is increasing in magnitude and frequency, threatening human health. This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is ...