A chunk of permafrost on rocky substrate melts. Locked away in frigid Arctic soils and riverbeds is a world teeming with ancient microbes. Bacteria and viruses that existed thousands of years ago are ...

Scientists have described a "double whammy" of concerns. Scientists issue warning on concerning hazard being unleashed as ...

Igunaq is a delicacy made from fermenting walrus for months underground. But thawing permafrost and unstable ground are ...

In the summer of 2009, scientists made an important discovery on Bylot Island, which is located in a very remote part of the ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

The Tibetan Plateau hosts the world’s largest permafrost region in the middle and low latitudes. Compared to the high-latitude Arctic permafrost, the permafrost here is thinner, warmer, and more ...

Minerals from a cave in Greenland reveal that the Arctic was warm and had no permafrost, with CO₂ levels similar to today's.

Microbes frozen for 40,000 years in Alaska's permafrost are thawing as temperatures rise, releasing CO2 and posing new ...

Chinese researchers have recently discovered links between reduction in microbial stability and soil carbon loss in the active layer of degraded alpine permafrost on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP).

BOULDER- Global warming may decimate the top 10 feet (3 meters) or more of perennially frozen soil across the Northern Hemisphere, altering ecosystems as well as damaging buildings and roads across ...

This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine, an independent journalistic endeavor from Annual Reviews. Deep in the frozen ground of the north, a radioactive hazard has lain trapped for ...

A two-story residential building broke apart as layers of permafrost thawed during a summer heatwave in Yakutsk, Russia—often referred to as the "world's coldest city." Winter temperatures in Yakutsk, ...