The permafrost of Siberia has the perfect conditions to preserve biological specimens for tens of thousands of years.

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

Cave data shows the Arctic was permafrost-free when Earth was 4.5˚C warmer, hinting at what rising temperatures could bring.

The payoffs are real: ancient biochemistry could spawn new drugs or enzymes that work in extreme cold. Yet each core sample ...

A pair of canines found in Siberian permafrost were wolf sisters that died shortly after eating. A pair of 14,000-year-old ...

Ground slumping in yedoma permafrost after a wildfire, in the interior of Alaska. Yedoma permafrost generally contains large ...

Frost mounds are areas of the permafrost that bulge as fluids accumulate beneath the surface. According to ongoing research at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SBRAS), two ...

Siberian permafrost is a massive area of frozen soil bigger than the continental USA. It’s melting, and it’s a huge physical and financial liability for Russia as it progressively undermines ...

While the sheer size of the Batagaika crater is impressive, what's truly mind-boggling is its depth, both physical and temporal. The steep walls of this mega-slump reveal permafrost layers ...

In the vast white expanse around Churapcha in eastern Siberia, the ever more rapid thaw of the permafrost is changing the landscape, cracking up houses and releasing greenhouse gases.

Permafrost is a layer of soil that is never supposed to thaw and covers around 65% of Russia's territory. Record mild weather The distinctive mounds have even been appearing in urban areas in Yakutia.