By documenting Alaska's lakes and ponds in unprecedented detail, Levenson and colleagues show where and how water bodies can signal underlying permafrost thaw, providing a step toward a ...

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

The archaeological site of Nunalleq on the southwest coast of Alaska preserves a fateful moment ... who lived here when they weren’t out hunting, fishing, and gathering plants.

Thousands of flammable lakes are popping up all over Alaska and Siberia ... global temperatures which is causing the permafrost to thaw for the first time in thousands of years.

On Alaska’s North Slope ... Her latest calculations, published in 2018, suggest that new lakes created by abrupt thaw could nearly triple the greenhouse gas emissions expected from permafrost.

Drivers warned to avoid muddy Mat-Su Valley roads. Public comments open for the proposed 500-mile Alaska Long Trail. Halibut ...

but they are among the first to describe how a lake's response to ongoing thaw depends on its geologic history. The researchers say the dataset they produced, which they call the Alaska Lake and ...