permafrost

At a time when the mighty woolly mammoth roamed the Earth, some 46,000 years ago, a minuscule pair of roundworms became encased in the Siberian permafrost.Millenia later, the worms, thawed out of the ice, would wriggle again, and…

Scientists fear 'time-traveling' pathogens could be leaked into the world as their icy prison in permafrost is melting - and they could spark the next planet and destroy the environment.Ancient viruses, sealed in permafrost for thousands of…

Camping in the rainy and foggy community of Salluit last weekend, Michael Cameron saw yet another mudslide.A lifelong resident of the second northernmost Inuit community in Quebec, he's used to witnessing landslides over the past few…

BATAGAI, Russia : Stunning drone footage has revealed details of the Batagaika crater, a one kilometre long gash in Russia's Far East that forms the world's biggest permafrost crater.In the video two explorers clamber across uneven…

As the Arctic’s ice-bound ground warms, hazardous compounds may be released across the region, as per reports. Researchers on March 28 wrote in Nature Communications that by the end of the century, the thaw threatens to destabilise…

A brown bear that lay almost perfectly preserved in the frozen wilds of eastern Siberia for 3,500 years has undergone a necropsy by a team of scientists after it was discovered by reindeer herders on a desolate island in the Arctic."This…

About 40 percent of interior Alaska is underlain by ice-rich permafrost -- permanently frozen grounds made up of soil, gravel and sand -- bound together by ice. Certain conditions, such as climate warming, have intensified tundra wildfires…

Researchers from the French National Centre for Scientific Research have revived more than a dozen prehistoric viruses that were previously trapped deep within the Siberian permafrost, according to a pre-print study. From seven…

Climate scientists, policy experts and environmental justice advocates on Monday announced a major project to better understand the contribution of thawing permafrost to global warming and to help Arctic communities cope with its…

Accelerating global warming is driving a rising tide of impacts that could cause profound human misery and ecological disaster, and there is only one way to avoid catastrophe: drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions.Spread across 10,000…