The Arctic landscape is changing too, said the NSIDC’s Twila Moon. The thawing of permafrost — a jumble of soil, rocks and sediment held together by ice — is pervasive, she said, releasing ...

This could cause Arctic rivers to spread and grow, as well as adding new ones to the landscape, further speeding up the break-up of permafrost. And this shift in Arctic landscapes could have a ...

Stream by stream, the population is spreading from forested areas in the Interior into the Northwest Arctic. In the 1970s and ‘80s, beavers started to occupy the Nome area, where there’s a lot ...

In the Arctic, one of the primary paths for water to flow is along water tracks, stream-like features that fill with and ...

Soar over Svartisen, Norway’s stunning glacier, with this breathtaking drone footage. Witness the icy blue crevasses, rugged ...

Alaska’s Arctic waterways are turning orange, threatening drinking water Scientists think climate change may be the culprit. by Emily Schwing December 13, 2022 March 18, 2025 ...

But in a recent study, Ken Tape, an ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, scanned satellite images of nearly every stream, river and lake in the Alaskan tundra and found 11,377 beaver ...

High levels of other metals have also been found in the streams, leaching from permafrost into the water, damaging fisheries and threatening water supplies downstream. Welcome to Arctic Alaska. Image ...

As Arctic warms, Indigenous communities there face dramatic changes to their way of life Since the 1980s, temperatures in the Arctic have risen at nearly triple the global rate.

The Arctic landscape is changing too, said the NSIDC’s Twila Moon. The thawing of permafrost — a jumble of soil, rocks and sediment held together by ice — is pervasive, she said, releasing ...

The Arctic has long filled humans with awe, but there are now profoundly worrying signals coming from the frozen landscape at the top of our planet, and scientists are deeply concerned about its ...