Possibly an effect of thawing permafrost.

Alaska’s tundra landscapes carpet a good portion of the state, from the North Slope to the elbow of the Alaska Peninsula. Researchers say it's slowly sinking in places -- as much as a fifth of an inch each year.

Downriver from Arctic Village

Because ice makes up a good portion of the underground foundation of northern Alaska, thawing has dropped the landscape as much as 3 feet in some places.

Need a reason to be concerned about rising sea level? I've got eight.

Permafrost thaw is causing trail in Golovin to erode.

Indigenous Australians from low-lying islands in the Torres Strait argue that the government, by failing to act on climate change, has violated their fundamental right to maintain their culture.

I went to gather some yesterday and there was no water to speak of; in a pond that's has been filled with water my whole life.

A new study has found permafrost at outposts in the Canadian Arctic is thawing 70 years earlier than predicted.

For more than a century farmers in California's Central Valley have been pumping water out of the ground — so much so that the land is slowly sinking, a process known as subsidence. In fewer than 100 years, it's dropped 8½ metres.