Beneath the frozen skin of the Earth, a silent awakening is underway. As Arctic and sub-Arctic permafrost thaws, ancient ...

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.

“We're in that period of time now,” she said, “where the changes are so erratic and so extreme, there's a good chance your sites will either be burned, actively on fire or flooded because the ...

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Researchers have performed a necropsy on a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in the Siberian permafrost.

According to the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a ...

A baby mammoth nicknamed "Yana" was dissected by Russian scientists at North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk on March ...

Permafrost temperatures measured in bore holes have increased at all 15 monitoring sites, researchers said in a statementExternal link. The longest series of measurements, going back 32 years ...

Permafrost melting is emerging as a unique ... “Over 21 years, we examined over 56 images each year, amounting to a total dataset of 1,176 land surface temperature images,” he said.