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Herschel Island, also called by its Inuit name, Qikiqtaruk, is an island in the Beaufort Sea – part of the Arctic Ocean – about...
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The McGill University-led study published last week in Environmental Research Letters presents close to 30 years of aerial surveys and extensive ground mapping of...
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One quarter of the Northern Hemisphere and 17 percent of the Earth’s exposed land surface is underlain by permafrost. Most of these regions have...
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The research is the first to document the potential for substantial contributions of CO2 from thawing permafrost to the atmosphere through an inorganic process...
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Global targets aimed at warding off runaway planetary warming could be breached sooner than expected, experts warned Monday, as gases released by melting permafrost...
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The frozen male foal of an extinct horse that lived 30,000 to 40,000 years ago was found in the Batagaika crater in the East...
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Scientists have been worried for years that if the Arctic permafrost were to melt, the vast stores of carbon buried underground for tens of...
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Canada’s Mackenzie River watershed or basin, at 1,805,200 square kilometers (697,000 square miles), is the largest in Canada and takes up almost 20 percent...
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Reindeer herders in the village of Seyakha in Siberia’s far north reported that on the morning of June 28, they saw and felt the...
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The seed vault is located on a remote island in the Svalbard archipelago, halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. The vault was...