[Above] Mars: Summertime view of polygons, highlighted by dark, windblown sand, on the floor of a crater at 71.2°S, 282.6°W. [Above] Earth: Polygonal cracking can be seen on the floor of Alatna Valley ...
Aims For informed predictions on the sensitivity of Arctic tundra landscape to permafrost thaw, we aimed to investigate the distribution pattern of near-surface ground ice and its influencing factors ...
Sam Anderson receives funding from The National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Jonas Eschenfelder receives funding from Simon Fraser University, Canada. Shawn M. Chartrand ...
Using deep learning and supercomputers, researchers have been able to identify and map 1.2 billion ice wedge polygons in the Arctic permafrost based on satellite imagery. The data helps establish a ...
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 15, 2016--Permafrost covers a considerable part of the Arctic. Hundreds of meters deep in many places and frozen for millennia, it's been thawing in recent decades, releasing ...
YAKUTSK, February 10. /TASS/. Scientists plan to organize in Yakutia a carbon polygon to study the permafrost’s conditions in the changing climate, the North-Eastern Federal University’s (NEFU) Rector ...
Data from two Arctic sites suggest some surface layers are no longer freezing. If that continues, greenhouse gases from permafrost could accelerate climate change. Ground collapses at Duvanny Yar, a ...
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