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

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

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

In the subarctic and arctic reaches of the Northwest Territories (NWT), the climate is warming faster than most other places ...

Climate change is creating new pathways for the spread of infectious diseases like brucellosis, tularemia, or E. coli in the Arctic, according to a broad international consortium of scientists with a ...

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

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major step toward recreating traits of the extinct woolly mammoth, offering new ...