Scientists thawed the ancient sample from the Alazeya River in northeastern Siberia, and to their surprise, the creature woke ...

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Scientists revived an ancient frozen Siberian virus.

Can grazing animals stabilize permafrost? Sergey Zimov proposes using millions of horses, bison, reindeer, yaks, muskoxen, and camels to prevent a catastrophic scenario of runaway global warming.

Ciara Wanket drilling for sedaDNA samples in Canada’s Yukon territory. This ash layer from the volcano eruption she studied is visible as a pale stripe in the dark permafrost sediment. For the first ...

Permafrost soils store large quantities of organic carbon and are often portrayed as a critical tipping element in the Earth system, which, once global warming has reached a certain level, suddenly ...

In the vast white expanse around Churapcha in eastern Siberia, the ever more rapid thaw of the permafrost is changing the landscape, cracking up houses and releasing greenhouse gases. A growing number ...