Siberian Anthrax outbreak wasn’t just a freak accident—it was a warning shot. Thawing permafrost had awakened something ...

In a rare and captivating discovery, researchers have uncovered the remarkably preserved remains of a 44,000-year-old wolf found deep within the permafrost of Yakutia, eastern Russia. This stunning ...

As our planet continues to warm, the permafrost thaws and the Earth "loosens and slumps". The Siberian collapse revealed layers of permafrost, within the remaining portion of the hillside ...

From unstable slopes to rock falls, thawing permafrost will have many consequences for mountain regions, including the Swiss ...

The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile wide and growing, is the largest of many across the Arctic. As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or ...

The rotifers were frozen in permafrost in a long-term cryptobiotic state. Lessons from these and other revived organisms could help farms on Mars. We promise this isn’t as sinister as it sounds: ...

The mammoths’ tusks, which could spiral to more than 13 feet, are reemerging from the permafrost—and fueling a trade that benefits the people of Arctic Siberia, including the native Yakuts ...

Some of the oldest mammoth fossils have been hidden in the permafrost for centuries. Today the permafrost is rapidly thawing as a result of climate change, and fossils are washing into the Adycha ...

TASS/. The deepest hall of the unique permafrost museum in Igarka, in Russia’s Krasnoyarsk Region, an east Siberian port on the Yenisei River, which was previously used for research purposes ...

The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...