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Pan-Northern Meeting on Permafrost Hazard Mapping Summary Report
This is the summary of a meeting that explored the ways that hazard mapping can help address changing permafrost impact. -
Methane concentrations and stable carbon isotopes in permafrost cores
These are all contributions submitted for the 12th International Conference on Permafrost (ICOP2024) held 16-20 June 2024 in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. -
The effect of permafrost thaw on old carbon release
One of the seminal papers to quantify how permafrost thaw releases ancient carbon, influencing global climate. -
Climate change and the permafrost carbon feedback
A landmark study emphasizing the global implications of permafrost carbon release, permafrost degradation and thaw dynamics. -
PERMAFROST 101
This 11 minute presentation from the NWT Association of Communities and Aboriginal Affairs will walk you through the basic information on permafrost in the NWT. -
NWT State of the Environment Report 2022
This report, published every four years, provides information on the state and trends of the environment in the NWT, organized over various environmental topics. -
2024 Arctic Report Card
The 2024 Arctic Report Card provides an overview of the vital signs of the Arctic's land, ocean, and air, and relevant newsworthy reports on emerging issues in the Arctic. -
Impacts of shrub removal on snow and near-surface thermal conditions in perma...
This study shows the impact of tall shrub removal practice on the permafrost management in NWT. -
Daily Microwave-Derived Surface Temperature over Canada/Alaska
This study presents a new method for deriving surface temperature from satellite microwave data to improve measurement frequency over arctic Canada and Alaska. -
Diagnosing Present and Future Permafrost from Climate Models
This study evaluates the ability of CMIP5 models to simulate current and future permafrost by directly using soil temperature and climate-driven estimators. -
What If and So What in Northwest Canada: Could Climate Change Make a Differen...
The article discusses the potential impacts of global warming on the Mackenzie Basin in northwestern Canada. -
Living With Frozen Ground - A field guide to permafrost in Yellowknife, North...
This guidebook describes some of the challenges to development that permafrost, or frozen ground, presents to the City of Yellowknife. -
Sensitivity of the carbon cycle in the Arctic to climate change
This review is designed to clarify key uncertainties and vulnerabilities in the response of the carbon cycle of the Arctic to ongoing climatic change. -
Climate and permafrost effects on the chemistry and ecosystems of High Arctic...
We present a unique thirteen-year record (2003–16) of the physiochemical properties of two High Arctic lakes and show that water quality has significantly changed. -
Report On 2017 Field Activities and Collection of Ground-thermal and Active-l...
This report provides a summary of field activities, and air temperature, ground-thermal and active-layer data acquired in 2017 are provided in graphical and tabular format. -
Permafrost is warming at a global scale
Here we use a global data set of permafrost temperature time series to evaluate temperature change across permafrost regions since 2007. -
New Ground Ice Maps For Canada Using A Paleogeographic Modelling Approach
New modelling incorporating paleogeography is presented in this paper to depict the distribution of three ground ice types (relict ice, segregated ice, and wedge ice) in... -
Permafrost Degradation Subarctic Canadian Shield
Recent ground temperature and observational data for lithalsas are examined in the context of an inventory of thermokarst ponding between 1945 and 2005. In presentation format. -
2023 Arctic Report Card
The 2023 Arctic Report Card provides an overview of the vital signs of the Arctic's land, ocean, and air, and relevant newsworthy reports on emerging issues in the Arctic. -
Anthropogenic, Direct Pressures on Coastal Wetlands
Coastal wetlands, such as in the Beaufort Delta, are investigated for impacts from various anthropogenic factors such as climate change.