permafrost

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Geological and fossil evidence shows that the area was once covered in temperate forest, very different from today's cold, dry permafrost landscape.

From Science Daily • Mar. 24, 2026

It stretches northward into desolate permafrost regions flush with “oil sands” that produce about nine times as much crude as Alaska.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

"We gained access to exceptionally well-preserved mammoth tissues unearthed from the Siberian permafrost, which we hoped would still contain RNA molecules frozen in time," adds Emilio Mármol.

From Science Daily • Nov. 15, 2025

Canada and Russia, where large amounts of ice and permafrost are melting, are losing the most fresh water.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

Usually you needed a jackhammer to dig into permafrost, but this ground had disintegrated just from Owen walking on it.

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz