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

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

Scientists have described a "double whammy" of concerns. Scientists issue warning on concerning hazard being unleashed as ...

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 ...

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 ...

The permafrost capping the top of the world is irreversibly thawing and within two decades will release more carbon than it now absorbs, scientists calculate in a new study that makes this dire ...

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

When the mercury's rising in your thermometer, it may also be rising in the ocean. In geology, permafrost is defined as any soil that has been frozen for more than two years. In the Northern ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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