Yakutia, Russia, plunged to −56°C this Christmas, becoming the coldest inhabited place on Earth. Scientists study extreme ...

The massive Red Dog mine is grappling with a problem that’s spreading across the Arctic: thawing permafrost. A glimpse of the mine’s challenges emerged in 2020, when its operator said efforts to ...

Methanotrophs, including those that capture methane from the air, seem to outcompete methanogens in dry environments, a new study shows. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

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. Horn of the 19,700-year-old woolly rhinoceros found in ...

Mars may have a network of liquid water flowing through the frozen ground. All buried permafrost, on Earth and beyond, is expected to host narrow veins of liquid, and new calculations show on Mars, ...

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, ...

Scientists gathered samples from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility in central Alaska. Tristan Caro Roughly 40,000 years ago, microbes went dormant in a rock-like ...

Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age can reactivate and resume breaking down carbon. When you purchase through ...

In the remote wilderness of Siberia, a groundbreaking study has unveiled the explosive origins of massive craters, linking them to subterranean methane eruptions and shifting the narrative on the role ...

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New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, and communities. Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent ...

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Scientists can see Earth’s permafrost thawing from space ...