Over one-third of Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) mountain huts could be unstable in the future due to thawing permafrost, according to a study.

An equally diverse cryosphere sits on this assorted landscape, including a vast snow cover, mountain glaciers and ice caps, rock glaciers and mountain permafrost. Despite the mounting evidence of a ...

Permafrost and ice wedges have built up over millennia in the Arctic. When they thaw, they destabilize the surrounding landscape. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images ...

If the car parks are full, please come back another time. Please respect residents and emergency services by not parking outside approved areas. There is no safe and legal way to access the mountain ...

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. New clues in Earth’s northernmost ...

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The storm arrived in the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, killing two people and knocking out power to hundreds of ...

permafrost (in periglacial snowfields), all within one of the world’s most megadiverse hotspots. The páramos mountains are water towers, that store water from fog, rain, and glacial melt, releasing it ...

Leopold M, Williams MW, Caine N, Volkel J, Dethier D. (2011). Internal Structure of the Green Lake 5 Rock Glacier, Colorado Front Range, USA. Permafrost and Periglacial Processes. Published online in ...

Geophysics is broadly the study of the physics of planetary bodies and atmospheres, including the flow of energy through these systems. The term may also be used more narrowly to describe the ...

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