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

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

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.

Svalbard is the fastest warming place in the world, and even within the Arctic. Leaving as little trace as possible is a ...

A recent UN report highlights alarming melting rates of glaciers, which could in turn jeopardise water security for billions ...

According to the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a ...

To see the melting for myself, I travel to Fairbanks, Alaska, and from there north to Prudhoe Bay, where two cold-adapted scientists have been probing the permafrost. Tom Osterkamp, a geophysicist ...

Climate change is not only melting ice—it's melting the barriers between ecosystems, animals, and people. 'Permafrost thawing could even release ancient bacteria or viruses that have been frozen ...

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

Some scientists are researching whether the melting permafrost could release potentially harmful pathogens, he explained.