World Health Organization is preparing for future pandemics. It tested global readiness with 'Exercise Polaris'. The exercise ...

But according to a new study, the answer could actually lie in the Arctic. Scientists have warned that melting ... Similarly, ...

The outbreak began when a team of scientists and documentary film-makers excavated the remains of a woolly mammoth in the frozen Arctic tundra.

While the scenario and the virus ... frozen in the Arctic could still have the potential to infect living organisms. In 2014, scientists isolated viruses from the Siberian permafrost and showed ...

Since covid brought the world to a standstill in 2020, thoughts have turned to what the next global pandemic could be.

Similarly, in 2023, scientists successfully revived an amoeba virus that ... polar regions.' Permafrost is a permanently frozen layer below the Earth's surface found in Arctic regions such as ...

‘Mammothpox’ is the name of a fictional virus that the World Health Organization (WHO) used to test how prepared 15 countries ...

As soil a couple of feet deep goes from frozen to mush, the release of carbon could push climate change to a tipping point, writer Craig Welch reports in “Arctic permafrost is thawing fast.

The Batagaika crater in eastern Siberia, half a mile wide and growing, is the largest of many across the Arctic. As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or ...

As the ice in the Arctic melts, more industries and people are flocking to the area, raising the chance for infectious ...