From unstable slopes to rock falls, thawing permafrost will have many consequences for mountain regions, including the Swiss ...

The frozen layers of Earth’s permafrost have long been a mystery, hiding secrets from thousands of years ago. Climate change, ...

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

A 770,000-year-old mystery is not something you stumble across every day, and it's making these researchers reconsider some things.

US biotechnology company Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences has a radical proposal: it wants to resurrect the woolly ...

Finland's Arctic Lapland region experienced an astonishingly mild winter through the month of  February with the average ...

President Vladimir Putin of Russia yesterday seemed to voice preliminary support for a cease-fire, but made it clear he was ...

The woolly mammoth could help reduce the thawing process by trampling the ground and knocking down trees. While this is scientifically plausible, it would depend on whether hybrid mammoths could even ...

The vast frozen terrain of Arctic permafrost thawed several times in North America within the past 1 million years when the world's climate was not much warmer than today, researchers from the United ...