The scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder extracted the permafrost and found the microbes within had " reawakened " and may pose a significant environmental risk, according to Discover ...

The frozen ground beneath our feet holds secrets from thousands of years past. These permanently frozen soils, known as ...

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 ...

Climate change has become one of the major concerns around the world. Although this trend has decreased over time, experts ...

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 ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, and communities.

A cave in northern Greenland shows the Arctic once thawed under mild conditions. Scientists say even small warming can ...

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 fragment of a mask that was preserved for hundreds of years in permafrost sat in the muck of a low tide in the western ...

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...