Thousands of flammable lakes are popping up all over Alaska and Siberia. That's because rising global temperatures are creating these thermokarst lakes as well as the perfect storm for our changing ...

Brand new lakes spewing out clouds of methane are appearing in Alaska. These so-called "thermokarst" lakes are formed when the permafrost ground layer, which usually stays frozen all year round, melts ...

Researchers observe that roughly 5,000 years ago, thermokarst lakes in ice-rich regions of North Siberia and Alaska began cooling, instead of warming the atmosphere. Pictured: An overhead view of ...

Dr Ingmar Nitze is a postdoctoral researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI); Dr Guido Grosse is head of the Permafrost Research Section at AWI and ...

We know that temperatures have risen in the Arctic, but today we saw evidence of its effects. Known as "thermokarst", these are spots where melting permafrost collapses and forms deformed valleys and ...

I awoke staring up at the stretched plastic ceiling and wooden skeleton of our weatherized tent; an older model, its timber framing is the inspiration for the somewhat startling name “splinterhaven” ...

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