But according to a new study, the answer could actually lie in the Arctic. Scientists have ... successfully revived an amoeba virus that had been frozen for 48,500 years. However, the risks are not ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...

In the Arctic, permafrost plays a crucial role in building infrastructure. However, as the region warms and permafrost thaws, infrastructure is threatened as the ground shifts beneath the built ...