By the looks of it, you wouldn’t have said this foal had been buried more than a few weeks, it was that perfectly preserved.

To see the melting for myself, I travel to Fairbanks, Alaska, and from there north to Prudhoe Bay, where two cold-adapted scientists have been probing the permafrost. Tom Osterkamp, a geophysicist ...

In Alaska, the land along riverbanks often consists of permafrost—a mix of soil, gravel, and sand, often bonded with ice. A team of Texas researchers, in collaboration with experts from other ...

Sergey Zimov, an ecologist by training, tossed a woolly mammoth bone on the pile ... Vladimir Romanovsky, a permafrost expert at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, had for years watched the ...

Stored in a permafrost deep-freeze for years, these remains are in pristine condition and represent an unprecedented window into the life of the Pleistocene Epoch. John finds a passion for bones ...

More information: Elias Manos et al, Permafrost thaw-related infrastructure damage costs in Alaska are projected to double under medium and high emission scenarios, Communications Earth ...

yet permafrost thaw is not recognized by the federal government as a natural hazard making it harder for people in Alaska to obtain disaster relief funding. In addition, Alaska is decades behind ...

did you realize the Trans-Alaska people have put in a request to Secretary of the Interior Hickel to build a pipeline? The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we ...

volunteers and onlookers is breaking down the carcass in order to send the whale’s bones to their permanent home at a Wasilla museum. Earlier this month, the Museum of Alaska in Wasilla ...