Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis. The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."
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The scientists who leave little trace at the world's northernmost laboratory in Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Arctic
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Alaskan rivers are turning orange
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New simulation based study warns against risks of ‘time-traveling pathogens’ in thawing Arctic permafrost
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Why did the US military dig a tunnel in the Alaskan tundra? What is the tunnel used for now?
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Trans-Alaska pipeline under threat from thawing permafrost
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An earth system model shows self-sustained melting of permafrost even if all man-made GHG emissions stop in 2020
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“Abrupt thaw” affects five percent of Arctic permafrost, but it could double the amount of warming it contributes
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Sea 'boiling' with methane discovered in Siberia: 'No one has ever recorded anything like this before'
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Scientists amazed as Canadian permafrost thaws seventy years early
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