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

Due to Arctic warming, fossilized microbes buried in Arctic ice and soil may wake up. The fear is that these pathogens will ...

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

"When the temperature of permafrost starts to increase, piles start to shift out of place, and that's what we call bearing capacity loss, or decrease in bearing capacity. That was the main hazard that ...

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The thawing of Arctic permafrost endangers the livelihoods, security, health, and food stability of the populations residing in these northern regions, according to an international team of scientists ...

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

The Arctic permafrost thaw is hazardous to the livelihood, safety, health, food security, and the infrastructure of communities living in Arctic regions, an international group of scientists have ...

Melissa Ward Jones, a Research Assistant Professor at the Water and Environmental Research Center (WERC) of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, discusses research focused on understanding the ...

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Yet, in some of the coldest places on Earth, the environment is too harsh for even humans to withstand ... and plenty of cultural attractions like the Mammoth Museum and Permafrost Kingdom — an ...