Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Permafrost on Tibetan Plateau, Ladakh, NE India

John Shaw / Melting permafrost. Near Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway. June.

Ashley Cooper / Pavement in Fairbanks Alaska collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA. August 2004

Ashley Cooper / House in Fairbanks Alaska moved after it started collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. August 2004

Ashley Cooper / House in Fairbanks, Alaska collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA, August 2004

Ashley Cooper / Thermopiles in Kotzebue Alaska designed to keep the permafrost frozen beneath buildings. Temperatures have rocketed in Alaska due to global warming leading to massive areas of permafrost melting. Sept...

Ashley Cooper / A 'Drunken forest' in Fairbanks, Alaska where trees are collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA, September 2004

Ashley Cooper / A 'Drunken forest' in Fairbanks, Alaska where trees are collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA, September 2004

Ashley Cooper / Electric pylons in Fairbanks, Alaska collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA. August 2004

Ashley Cooper / Road in Fairbanks, Alaska collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA. August 2004

Ashley Cooper / A 'Drunken forest' in Fairbanks, Alaska where trees are collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA, September 2004

Ashley Cooper / A 'Drunken forest' in Fairbanks, Alaska where trees are collapsing into the ground due to global warming induced permafrost melt. Alaska, USA, August 2004

Ashley Cooper / Climbers on the arete leading up from the Vallee Blanche to the Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France. September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Mont Blanc Du Tacul with mountaineers climbing the peak. From the Aiguille Du midi, above Chamonix, France, September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Mont Blanc Du Tacul, with mountaineers crossing the Vallee Blanche. Aiguille Du midi, above Chamonix, France, September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Climbers on the Cosmiques Arete, climbing the ladder to access the cable car station, and a base jumper in a wing suite flying past. Mont Blanc from the Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France, Septem...

Ashley Cooper / Mont Blanc from the Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France, with climbers on the Cosmiques Arete, climbing the ladder to access the cable car station. September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Mont Blanc with climbers on the Cosmiques Arete, climbing the ladder to access the cable car station. Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France, September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Mont Blanc with climbers on the Cosmiques Arete, climbing the ladder to access the cable car station. Aiguille Du Midi above Chamonix, France, September 2014

Ashley Cooper / Patterned ground and stone circles formed above permafrost in the high Arctic on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The patterns are formed by frost heave and freeze thaw cycles which pushed the large rocks out f...

Ashley Cooper / Patterned ground and stone circles formed above permafrost in the high Arctic on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The patterns are formed by frost heave and freeze thaw cycles which pushed the large rocks out f...

Ashley Cooper / Patterned ground and stone circles formed above permafrost in the high Arctic on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The patterns are formed by frost heave and freeze thaw cycles which pushed the large rocks out f...

Ashley Cooper / Polar Bear footprints in melting permafrost on Northern Svalbard. July 2013

Ashley Cooper / Patterned ground and stone circles formed above permafrost in the high Arctic on Spitsbergen, Svalbard. The paaterns are formed by frost heave and freeze thaw cycles which pushed the large rocks out f...

Ashley Cooper / Balcony cafe over looking The Mer De Glace which has thinned 150 meters since 1820, and retreated by 2300 Metres, with a balcony cafe overlooking the rapidly shrinking glacier. Chamonix, France, Septe...

Ashley Cooper / Old house at Recherchefjorden, Van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is gradually sliding down slope due to solifluction and permafrost melt. Norway, July 2013.

Ashley Cooper / Old house at Recherchefjorden, Van Keulenfjorden, Spitsbergen, Svalbard. It is gradually sliding down slope due to solifluction and permafrost melt. Norway, July 2013.

Ashley Cooper / The Dru mountain above Chamonix France. Recently a massive rockfall involving millions of tons of rock was caused by meting permafrost in the high summer temperatures. Permafrost holds many alpine pea...

Steven Kazlowski / Rolling spring tundra inland from Kasegaluk lagoon and outside the arctic village of Point Lay, Alaska, USA, June 2011

Steven Kazlowski / Crosses, marking grave sites at a cemetery in the Inupiaq village of Point Lay, slump from melting permafrost, along the arctic coast of Alaska, USA, June 2011

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Modern housing units in the Nunavut capital, Iqaluit, on stilts because of the permafrost. Baffin Island, Canada, 2002.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Modern housing units in the Nunavut capital, Iqaluit, on stilts because of the permafrost. Baffin Island, Canada, 2002.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Modern Arctic homes built on piles driven into the permafrost. Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, April 2008.

Wild Wonders of Europe / de la L / Polygons, permafrost ground, Signehamna, Svalbard, Norway, June 2008

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Permafrost cooling device along Alaska Highway helps to stabilize slopes of roadway and prevents frost heaves, Yukon, Canada

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Finned radiators expel heat from heat pipes protecting the Alaska Pipeline from permafrost, Alaska

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Finned radiators expel heat from heat pipes protecting the Alaska Pipeline from permafrost, Alaska

Yva Momatiuk & John Eastcott / Finned radiators expel heat from heat pipes protecting the Alaska Pipeline from permafrost, Alaska

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Close-up of permafrost covered with earth and dead vegetation, Ladakh, India

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Permafrost exposed at edge of water, Ladakh, India

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Remaining snow on permafrost, next to lake, Ladakh, India

Steven Kazlowski / Thermokarst lakes covering the tundra landscape along the Arctic coast in the National Petroleum Reserves, Alaska. These widespread geomorphologial features are formed by the freezing and thawing of A...

Steven Kazlowski / Thermokarst lakes covering the tundra landscape along the Arctic coast in the National Petroleum Reserves, Alaska. These widespread geomorphologial features are formed by the freezing and thawing of A...

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / The barren permafrost of the Tibetan Plateau with Himalayan mountain range in background, Ladakh, North East India

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Alpine lake with semi-submerged permafrost vegetation, Ladakh, North East India

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Tibetan Plateau landscape with permafrost on edge of water, Ladakh, North East India

Staffan Widstrand / Permafrost underground tunnel for meat storage, Madadan, Siberia, Russia. Icnhoun,

Staffan Widstrand / Permafrost tundra, Kolyma delta, Siberia, Russia.

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Tussocks of permafrost next to water, Tibetan plateau, Ladakh, North East India

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Permafrost on Tibetan Plateau, with mountains in background, Ladakh, North East India

Staffan Widstrand / Mammoth skeleton from the permafrost of Kolyma, Siberia, Russia

Gary Braasch / Native Inupiat village on low-lying land, one of several villages threatened by rising sea levels and permafrost thaw, Kivalina, Alaska, Bering Sea. August, 2015.

Oriol Alamany / Permafrost melting under the soil due to high summer temperatures, Adventdalen valley near Longyearbyen, Svalbard Islands, Norway. 20th July 2022.

Jenny E. Ross / Arctic tundra with frost-wedging features caused by repeated freeze-thaw processes in rocky soil, and surface water accumulation from melting permafrost. Wrangel Island, Siberian Arctic, Chukchi Sea,...

Jenny E. Ross / Arctic tundra with frost-wedging features caused by repeated freeze-thaw processes in rocky soil, and surface water accumulation from melting permafrost. Wrangel Island, Siberian Arctic, Chukchi Sea,...

Jeff Vanuga / Exposed melting permafrost in the arctic archipelego of Svalbard, Norway. June 2016.

Jenny E. Ross / Arctic tundra with frost-wedging features caused by repeated freeze-thaw processes in soil, as well as slumping and and surface water accumulation from thawing permafrost. Amguema River Estuary Region...

Jenny E. Ross / Slumping hillside due to thawing permafrost, Amguema River Estuary, Chukchi Sea, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia.