A giant crater, 165 feet deep, has recently been discovered on Siberia’s Arctic tundra, raising alarm among scientists. The ...

Permafrost—ground that remains frozen year-round—is capped by a few feet of dirt and plant detritus. Called the active layer, this soil normally thaws each summer and refreezes in winter ...

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

Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists ...

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Photosynthesising microbes in soil may increase their activity as temperatures rise, offsetting some of the carbon emissions ...

losing permafrost. "It is difficult to predict how this will affect coastal erosion and flooding. The thawing floodplains will make lower river shores due to the loss of soil. For the Lena River's ...

Climate change is creating new pathways for the spread of infectious diseases like brucellosis, tularemia, or E. coli in the ...

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

“It’s fast and dramatic, affecting landscapes in unprecedented ways,” Turetsky said. Permafrost, a perpetually frozen layer under the ground surface, contains rocks, soil, sand and, in some cases, ...

The Earth’s warming is behind the permafrost thaw – a process which refers to the melting of the ice in the frosty soil of Arctic regions. A thawing permafrost can have grave consequences on ...

Peatlands are "terrestrial wetland ecosystems in which waterlogged conditions prevent plant material from fully decomposing," per the International Peatland Society. They are located on every ...