Thawing permafrost in Herschel Island, 3 miles (5 km) off the coast of Yukon in Canada. Boris Radosavljevic, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Permafrost is a layer of soil or rock that remains ...

The Management of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) says the narrow gauge track of the corporation is alive and active. Mr Yakub Mahmood, the Deputy Director Public Relations, NRC ...

A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ocean, where it can contribute to climate change, according to new ...

Rates of 3 centimeters or greater were found in areas with significant ground ice near the top of permafrost and a thin protective organic layer that allows heat through, the review found.

Le Permafrost, ou pergélisol en français, est un sous-sol gelé en permanence dont la température n’excède pas 0 °C pendant au moins deux années consécutives.

Long underwear — a.k.a. long johns, thermals, base layers, or whatever else you want to call the cozy, body-hugging tops and bottoms worn beneath looser clothes in cold weather — is my ...

School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xi’an University of Science and Technology, Xi’an 710054, China State Key Laboratory of Road Engineering Safety and Health in High-altitude Regions, CCCC ...

It’s not rocket science that wearing multiple layers helps trap body heat to keep you warm while skiing in cold weather. Your mom probably first told you that all the way back in elementary school ...

Melting Arctic permafrost is creating ongoing challenges for communities across the North, and a new study is shedding light on how those threats are perceived from region to region. Understanding ...

Laboratory of Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management-Ministry of Education, Northern Forest Fire Management Key Laboratory of the State Forestry, College of Forestry, Northeast Forestry University, ...

To address these limitations, we propose enhanced-HisSegNet, a multimodal fusion strategy that builds upon HisSegNet by integrating learnable histogram layers (HLs) tailored for SAR data with active ...