Ice wedges are common features of the subsurface in permafrost regions. They develop by repeated frost cracking and ice vein growth over hundreds to thousands of years. Ice-wedge formation causes ...

To enter the Fox permafrost tunnel ... The eagle-man and every ice formation in this gallery is a slice of a wedge. By capillary action, water can also collect into lenses and chunks in the ...

Using deep learning and supercomputers, researchers have been able to identify and map 1.2 billion ice wedge polygons in the Arctic permafrost ... The two types have different structural ...

Their methodology, using ice wedges from the Alaskan permafrost, could help scientists further reconstruct historic sea-ice conditions in the Arctic Ocean, and thus improve forecasts for the future.

The two-lane highway in front undulates abruptly in places where ice wedges underground ... thawing beneath lakes in yedoma permafrost—the oldest, most carbon-rich type of permafrost found ...

“It’s the birthplace of American permafrost ... ice wedges, creating a more comprehensive view of the Arctic, but can only infer what’s under the surface through identifying types of soil ...

Ice-rich ground collapses, leaving the landscape wavy where it once was flat, and in some locations creating vast fields of large, sunken polygons. It’s evidence that permafrost, the long-frozen ...

This vast part of Siberia contains a distinct type of permafrost called ... to the methane story. Massive wedges of ice 10 to 80 meters high and smaller lenses constitute up to 90 percent of ...

Rapid melting of ice and Arctic permafrost is altering tundra regions in Alaska, Canada and Russia, according to a new study released in the journal Nature Geoscience.Ice-wedge degradation has ...

We discussed these and other ice wonders with Nikita Tananaev, a hydrologist and leading researcher at the Permafrost Institute in Yakutsk. The most interesting types of ice can be found on water ...

"You can imagine if this – the permafrost thaws and this really large ice wedge here melts out, that you're going to have some pretty substantial ground collapse," Natali said. It's already ...