By the looks of it, you wouldn’t have said this foal had been buried more than a few weeks, it was that perfectly preserved.

The world rsquo;s largest city north of the Arctic Circle, Murmansk mdash;under the slogan ldquo;To Live in the North rdquo; ...

As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Moscow and much of Russia west of the Urals could see notable temperature increases by midcentury, but this is not expected ...

He was joined a few years ago by Russian-born scientist Vladimir Romanovsky, with whom I drive up from Fairbanks. We stop half a dozen times to take the permafrost's vital signs, trekking out ...

In 2018, a team of mammoth tusk hunters were excavating the Batagaika crater, located in Russia’s Siberian region, when they came across what would be a groundbreaking discovery. Embedded beneath 30 ...

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

The unexpected threat posed by melting permafrost — including ground instability and infrastructure collapse — is outlined in ...

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.

When Svalbard Airport, world’s northernmost destination for scheduled commercial flights, was built, no one expected the ...