Permafrost thaw can stimulate the release of soil carbon, triggering a positive carbon-climate feedback that may be mediated ...

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are melting the underground permafrost. The melted ice then mixes with the soil, ...

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 ...

Typhoon Halong destroyed dozens of feet of Alaska's most significant Yup'ik archaeological site, scattering potentially ...

Permafrost and ice wedges have built up over millennia in the Arctic. When they thaw, they destabilize the surrounding landscape. Michael Robinson Chavez/The Washington Post via Getty Images Across ...

A local resident stumbled upon the remains of the 19,700-year-old beast. Its record-breaking horn offers new insights into life in the Ice Age.

Rapidly thawing permafrost in the Arctic has scientists worried. According to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, the ice that holds the soil together is melting, causing ...

The small lakes that dot Russia's Yamal Peninsula were likely formed in the same was as the two strange holes. Google The discovery last week of a weird hole in northern Siberia—a big, sheer pit in ...

An intact baby mammoth has been unearthed in the far reaches of Siberia, its remains frozen in time for an estimated 50,000 ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. To enter the Fox permafrost tunnel—one of the only places in the world dedicated to the firsthand scientific ...

Melting permafrost will release strange microbes into the atmosphere in coming years, scientists believe. They fear that ancient microbes, suspended in natural time capsules of permafrost, sometimes ...

Growing season gains do not offset carbon emissions from permafrost thaw, new research shows. Permafrost contains three to seven times the amount of carbon sequestered in tropical forests. The warming ...