When volcanic activity in the northern Hemisphere caused the temperature to plunge further, the pine forest trees became locked in ice, where they remained until it began to thaw in recent years.

Trees have become submerged under 4 meters of water ... The irony is that this precious equipment is there to measure the very cause of its demise: Abrupt permafrost thaw, where the ice-rich ...

has tracked abrupt thaw in a black spruce forest near Fairbanks for the past 15 years. Flooding there, she has found, is destabilizing tree roots and trunks. Turetsky suspects all the trees in her ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - As the sun rises over New Orleans on Wednesday morning, the Crescent City is slowly thawing after a rare ...

An ancient fossilized forest in Montana is reemerging 600 feet higher than the present-day tree line after spending the last 5,500 years encased in alpine tundra. But as temperatures continue to ...