A network of low-centred ice-wedge polygons (5 to 20 m in diameter) in Adventdalen, Svalbard

ORNL staff member Kenneth Lowe operates a Big Beaver auger drill with customized SIPRE auger (Jon’s Machine Shop, Fairbanks, AK) mounted on a sled to remove frozen soil cores at the Barrow Environmental Observatory. (Credit: David Graham, Oak Ridge Nation

The tundra continues to warm up in the Arctic as climate change continues. While researchers agree that the increase in temperature will lead to carbon being released that was previously stored in the frozen tundra, a factor many researchers underemphasiz

One of the most profound effects of a warming world is underway on US soil – the impact will force thousands to relocate, and have far-reaching, global consequences. Sara Goudarzi reports from Alaska.

A skeleton is to a human body what permafrost is to Arctic land.

Alaska's thawing permafrost puts huge portions of state's foundation at risk.

It might be common for most Alaskans to hear that the Governor of Alaska visited Nome, but what if a Governor from the Lower 48 stopped by instead?

Three Earth and Environmental Sciences Area (EESA) scientists have been selected as recipients of the 2017 U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Research Award out of a pool of ~700.

Dr. Richard Norby has been named a Fellow in the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has named Susan Hubbard, Associate Laboratory Director for the Earth & Environmental Sciences Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as a 2017 AGU Fellow.