A miner discovers a 30,000-year-old squirrel in the Klondike, an intact find from the ice that reveals the secrets of the ...

Between May and September this year, avalanches, landslides and flashfloods tore through mountain communities in Switzerland, ...

Wildfires get headlines. Floods get funding. But Canada’s most disruptive climate risk may be hiding underground ...

Forty thousand years after they were locked into Arctic ground, ancient microbes from Alaskan permafrost have stirred back to ...

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 ...

Picture a deep freezer suddenly failing on a hot summer day. What happens to everything inside? Now imagine that freezer is ...

Researchers say they have recovered RNA from the remains of a woolly mammoth that lived roughly 39,000 years ago.

Igunaq is a delicacy made from fermenting walrus for months underground. But thawing permafrost and unstable ground are ...

Figure 1: Late-July active layer thickness in control and B. nana removal plots from 2007 to 2012. Figure 2: Relative surface elevation in control and B. nana removal plots. Figure 3: Relative surface ...

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 ...