As the world heats up, vast numbers of microbes frozen in vast amounts of ice are set to thaw. We must prepare ...

Beneath the frozen skin of the Earth, a silent awakening is underway. As Arctic and sub-Arctic permafrost thaws, ancient microbes—some dormant for tens of thousands of years—are springing back to life ...

In the vast white expanse around Churapcha in eastern Siberia, the ever more rapid thaw of the permafrost is changing the ...

In 2016, anthrax spores escaped from an animal carcass that had been frozen in the Siberian permafrost for 75 years, leaving dozens hospitalised and one child dead.

These so-called 'Methuselah microbes' can remain dormant in the soil and the bodies of frozen animals for tens of thousands of years. But as the climate warms and the permafrost thaws, scientists ...

Since Covid-19 brought the world to a standstill back in 2020, thoughts have turned to what the next global pandemic could be. Many scientists are focusing their research on a hypothetical future ...

Researchers took a closer look at Yana by performing a necropsy — the animal equivalent of an autopsy ... and we have no idea what happens next Yana was encased in permafrost, or permanently frozen ...

I am talking of those subarctic and arctic regions that are based on permafrost — permanently frozen ground — that supports forests of spruce and birch and tundras of feathery moss ...

Meet the world’s first de-extinct animals. The science of de-extinction is to analyze ... which would help to keep the permafrost frozen. Mammoths could also help compact snow, which acts as an ...

These so-called 'Methuselah microbes' can remain dormant in the soil and the bodies of frozen animals for tens of thousands of years. But as the climate warms and the permafrost thaws, scientists ...