The frozen layers of Earth’s permafrost have long been a mystery, hiding secrets from thousands of years ago. Climate change, ...

From unstable slopes to rock falls, thawing permafrost will have many consequences for mountain regions, including the Swiss ...

Permafrost is the hidden frozen “glue” – a layer formed by ice, rock and soil – that holds icy northern landscapes together.

Arctic kelp absorbs metals from melting glaciers, increasing mercury levels by 72%. This could harm marine life and fisheries ...

Since the second inauguration of President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937, the constitutional date on which newly elected American presidents assume office has fallen on January 20, at the coldest time of ...

In an interdisciplinary cooperation project of the EU-projects FACE-IT, ECOTIP, and SEA-Quester, scientists investigated the ...

According to the report, the journey began back in 2009, when geomorphologist Daniel Fortier and his colleagues investigated landslides triggered by melting permafrost. They found layered bodies of ...

The anthrax incident is just one example, but there could be many more," Chung told the news agency. He referred to a scientific report published a few years ago, which warned that the melting of ice ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of ...

Experiments on mice could see hairy, genetically modified elephants living in the Arctic, a US company claims.