Melissa Ward Jones discusses research focused on understanding the interactions of permafrost thaw and agriculture ...

One of these remarkable places is the Arctic Coastal Plain. Whale bone pile, Wainwright, Alaska. Over a decade ago, our ...

An official state of the union for 66 years, Alaska is known for its glaciers, permafrost and national ... Last Frontier is full of Instagram-worthy photo opportunities. About 500 miles from ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws ... Southeast of Shishmaref, on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, photos of a tributary of the Serpentine River show no change at all between 1950 and 1985.

Alaska-based military units, he said, are “actually now doing leadership development programs in the tunnel, learning about permafrost and what it is and how that impacts their operations.

But the rivers in satellite photos "have to be stained ... The melting of the permafrost is also likely to birth more new rivers in places like Alaska and Siberia, which would further exacerbate ...

Alyeska Pipeline consultant Mike Mertz provides a look at how the company is coping with thawing permafrost on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. The Wall Street Journal's Jim Carlton reports.

did you realize the Trans-Alaska people have put in a request to Secretary of the Interior Hickel to build a pipeline? The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we ...