Parts of Alaska are warming up to four times faster than most of the rest of the world. That's forcing tough choices for ...

Accomplishing this will be hard at a time when some world powers are hampering research in the region. Scientists need to ...

Beneath the frozen skin of the Earth, a silent awakening is underway. As Arctic and sub-Arctic permafrost thaws, ancient ...

One of the world’s most extreme airports, Norway’s Svalbard Airport, is at risk of disappearing. The world’s northernmost ...

Since covid brought the world to a standstill in 2020, thoughts have turned to what the next global pandemic could be.

In her project 'Under the Ice of the Arctic, Mercury,' French photographer Juliette Pavy reveals an alarming reality ...

scientists have known that bacteria and viruses frozen in the Arctic could still have the potential to infect living organisms. In 2014, scientists isolated viruses from the Siberian permafrost ...

The outbreak began when a team of scientists and documentary film-makers excavated the remains of a woolly mammoth in the frozen Arctic tundra.

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

Scientists in the high Arctic are lifting their labs into the air to avoid damage from melting permafrost. Ny-Ålesund in Norway's Arctic is the world's most northerly settlement. A team of ...