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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Consequently, snow, glaciers, and permafrost are melting – all of which are contributing ... mercury) have also been found in higher concentrations. The researchers collected kelps exposed ...

The remains of four women and five men, originally from Tlaxcala, were found in San José Miahuatlán, in the state of Puebla, in an abandoned Volkswagen Vento, according to Central Puebla ...

Mountain Home Police Department/Facebook A 95-year-old woman who went missing at the beginning of February is believed to have been found dead on an Air Force base, authorities said. A woman's ...