Yet at this cliff, called Duvanny Yar, the Kolyma had chewed through and exposed what lies beneath: a layer of frozen ground, or permafrost, that is hundreds of feet deep—and warming fast.

Another table held the mammoth's hindquarters, which remained embedded in a cliff when the front quarters fell below ... but is now dated at "more than 130,000 years" following analysis of the ...

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

“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 ...

It has been called everything from the "gateway to the underworld" to a "tadpole-shaped gash" – and it's eating into the surrounding landscape "like a living thing". Officially known as the ...

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 ...

A BABY mammoth has gone under the knife – after being preserved in Siberian permafrost for 130,000 years. Russian scientists carried out a necropsy on the long-dead mammoth calf, nicknamed Yana.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Permafrost thaw in Alaska poses significant risks to infrastructure, as warming temperatures cause ground instability. A new method using high-resolution ...

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 ...

for millennia until climate change thawed that permafrost and exposed her carcass. The front part of her body started to tumble down a cliff, but she was held in place by her hindquarters ...