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

As the name suggests, permafrost was long considered to be permanent. But more recently, researchers have come to realize ...

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.

Called the active layer, this soil normally thaws each summer and refreezes in winter, protecting permafrost from rising heat above. But in the spring of 2018, a crew working for Nikita found that ...

Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...

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

While similar ancient viruses have been found in melting permafrost elsewhere, raising concerns about potential human infection, experts indicate that these viruses likely infected bacteria rather ...

Many peatlands have been frozen over thousands of years in permafrost with "nearly 20% of the permafrost areas, store[ing] nearly 50% of soil carbon of the permafrost ecosystem, equal to nearly 10 ...

Found preserved in permafrost on Bylot Island ... had been studying a fossilized forest on the island with colleagues in 2009. Melting permafrost caused landslides in the area, revealing a ...