For the first time, scientists have documented an acceleration in the melt rate of permafrost, or ground ice, in a section of Antarctica where the ice had been considered stable. The melt rates ...

The repercussions of melting permafrost extend distinctly to water systems. Thawing alters river flows, often increasing sediment and nutrient loads, significantly affecting water bodies’ visual ...

To see the melting for myself, I travel to Fairbanks, Alaska, and from there north to Prudhoe Bay, where two cold-adapted scientists have been probing the permafrost. Tom Osterkamp, a geophysicist ...