Beneath the icy surface of permafrost lies a hidden world of ancient organisms. These microorganisms have been trapped in ice ...

A new pandemic 'could happen in 20 years or more, or it could happen tomorrow'.

The result has been spectacular preservation of humans thousands of years old. Glaciers and permafrost can preserve an entire organism. Only very young - Pleistocene - fossils are preserved this way.

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

scientists have known that bacteria and viruses frozen in the Arctic could still have the potential to infect living organisms. In 2014, scientists isolated viruses from the Siberian permafrost ...

They show an organism was there, but are not the actual organism itself ... Some mummified fossils include mammoths found frozen in the arctic permafrost, which are preserved by the cold just as a ...

“We're in that period of time now,” she said, “where the changes are so erratic and so extreme, there's a good chance your sites will either be burned, actively on fire or flooded because the ...

Many peatlands have been frozen over thousands of years in permafrost with "nearly 20% of the permafrost areas, store[ing] nearly 50% of soil carbon of the permafrost ecosystem, equal to nearly 10 ...

Scientists have made a leap in genetic engineering by pushing elephant cells into an embryonic-like state. This marks a major ...

The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...

Upcoming survival-crafting game Permafrost just got a new trailer at the Future Games Show spring showcase, and when a promotional video starts with the moon itself being blown to smithereens ...