About 670 million people live in high-mountain areas worldwide. Experts sound alarm after mountain collapses without warning: ...

A new study shows a growing share of greenhouse gas emissions is coming from natural, unmanaged ecosystems in response to ...

"The study proposes new ideas." Scientists discover troubling phenomenon that can cause land to sink and slide: 'This is of ...

Hiking will always be a part of life in the Alps, but climate change has made navigating high-alpine routes more complicated ...

Fossil fuel companies drilling into the Norwegian permafrost may be unleashing a hidden monster. After analyzing 18 hydrocarbon exploration wells in Svalbard, an archipelago located between Norway and ...

At Eielson Air Force Base, military engineers must contend with a problem lurking beneath the ground: permafrost thaw. At Eielson Air Force Base, military engineers must contend with a problem lurking ...

This Collection welcomes original research on the impact of climate change on permafrost and associated communities and ecosystems, including but not limited to, observational studies or models with a ...

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

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 ...