A crater in Siberia is expanding faster than anticipated due to climate change, scientists have discovered, saying it now poses problems for the surrounding habitat. The Batagaika slump, known as the ...

Researchers use advanced machine learning techniques and multiple global land cover datasets to develop a high-precision land cover map of Siberia. Siberia, a province located in Russia, is a ...

Even if you live far from the boreal forests in Canada and Siberia, you've likely noticed an increase in smoke from their forest fires. During major blazes in 2023, the smoke tinted the New York sky ...

From Siberia to Brazil, wildfires are moving underground and burning up massive carbon deposits. The resulting emissions threaten to worsen global warming. The Arctic tundra. The vast floodplains of ...

Climate warming is 3 to 4 times faster in the Arctic than the global average. Permafrost – soil frozen for at least two consecutive years – can be very rich in ice and organic matter there. One ...

Deep, cylindrical craters in the permafrost of Siberia have puzzled researchers since they were discovered a decade ago. Researchers now propose that the distinctive structures are caused by a ...

Although all lakes are unique ecosystems, this process could also occur in other deep-lake settings around the world, such as Japan’s Lake Biwa or Lake Baikal in southeastern Siberia. Climate change ...