There have been several impressive organic specimens found in permafrost, besides the Lena horse, including plants, animals, bacteria ... impossible environmental conditions, such as being frozen ...

The process is painful to the animal ... refrigeration units to keep the ground frozen around wellheads and pipelines. Some effects of thawing permafrost are hard to prepare for, Osokin ...

The Kitikmeot Heritage Society is working with archaeologists to excavate sod houses near Cambridge Bay – and collect elders' testimonies. Inuit lived in those dwellings, even in the harshest of ...

Past colonial atrocities and catastrophes have not deterred today’s global powers from vying for control of the Arctic.

Both the Argentine and the Chilean governments recognize permafrost as a strategic freshwater reserve which, in times of ...

The Arctic region has shifted from storing carbon dioxide to releasing it into the atmosphere, according to the 2024 Arctic ...

The Arctic and other permafrost-covered regions have remained frozen for thousands of years, acting as a natural time capsule ...

In 2011, a woolly mammoth was dug out in near pristine condition after it spent the last 28,000 years frozen solid in the ...

Researchers unearthed an ancient glacier in the Canadian Arctic that could help reveal Earth's climatic history.

The next time you declare that you are “freezing to death,” spare a thought for the wood frog who gets so cold in winter that ...

Jan. 31 (UPI) --Police and animal rescue officers in Missouri came to the rescue of a woman who became stranded in a kayak after saving a dog that fell through the ice on a frozen lake.

The shapefiles were derived from the original 1:10,000,000 paper map (Brown et al. 1997) Permafrost, or permanently frozen ground, is ground (soil, sediment, or rock) that remains at or below 0°C for ...