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 ...

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 ...

But as climate change weakens Arctic permafrost, ... The culprit of the cleaving was a small stream of water that had ... "Our understanding of Arctic landscapes is more or less where we were with ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared on High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dozens of once crystal-clear streams and rivers in Arctic Alaska are now running bright orange ...

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 ...

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 ...