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

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The fact that the site is located on permafrost places special demands on antenna construction. Sixteen supporting pillars driven 14 metres into the permafrost ground keep the 31-tonne structure ...

At a laboratory in Russia, scientists were dissecting a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago. The calf has […] ...

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a permafrost expert at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, had for years watched the active layer freeze completely by mid-January at some 180 research sites in Alaska. But as those places also ...

The process, which enables the bacteria to become practically indestructible, explains why bacteria can survive in uninhabitable places such as under the permafrost, in the depths of the ocean or ...

The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...

“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 ...

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

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