Permafrost. Image by Boris Radosavljevic, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The Arctic and other permafrost-covered regions ...

Embedded beneath 30 meters of permafrost was a wonderfully preserved foal unlike anything seen before. The walls of this immense crater look as though they could have been scooped out of ice cream, ...

2024 was one of the wettest years on record, witnessing record-breaking extreme precipitation events across the globe, several of which were compound events. Extreme rainfalls were unprecedented ...

Also, according to its website, it hopes to revive the woolly mammoth's habitat in order to reverse the warming of the Earth and protect the Arctic's permafrost. Also on Colossal's de-extinction list ...

Also, according to its website, it hopes to revive the woolly mammoth's habitat in order to reverse the warming of the Earth and protect the Arctic's permafrost. Also on Colossal's de-extinction ...

SCIENTISTS have brought back Dire Wolves from the dead in the world's first-ever de-extinction project. Dire Wolves were large, white-coated canines that disappeared 13,000 years ago - but now ...

Yana had been encased in Siberian permafrost – long-frozen earth – that had recently thawed. This exposed the creature's body, but it was kept in place at the rear. Scientists used scissors ...

But as the climate warms and the permafrost thaws, scientists are now concerned that ancient diseases might infect humans. Co-author Dr Khaled Abass, of the University of Sharjah, says ...

Architects face a unique challenge in subarctic and boreal climates, from Alaska to northern Scandinavia: building on permafrost or permanently frozen ground. When heat from a building reaches ...

After spending around 130,000 years buried in Siberian permafrost, Yana (named after the river basin in which she was found) is one of the most well-preserved mammoth specimens ever found.

Russian scientists have cut open and examined a 130,000-year-old baby mammoth preserved in Siberian permafrost. The yearling mammoth, nicknamed "Yana," was first unveiled in December 2024.

Khaled Megahed Abass of the University of Sharjah and a co-author, stressing that "permafrost thawing could even release ancient bacteria or viruses that have been frozen for thousands of years." ...