Scientists have recovered a 24,000-year-old worm-like creature called a rotifer from a sample of permafrost, as the Indian ...

Thawing permafrost buried underneath rivers may be accelerating permafrost degradation faster than previously estimated in ...

More than two-thirds of the permafrost in northeast China has changed stability over the past two decades, driving a fundamental shift in the region's vegetation, with grasslands shrinking, shrubs ...

Thawing permafrost on a small island off the Yukon’s north coast is shedding light on how climate change could dramatically ...

Meet Melissa Ward Jones and Glenna Gannon, who are part of a climate research collaboration between scientists and farmers.

Rapidly thawing permafrost in the Arctic has scientists worried. According to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience, the ice that holds the soil together is melting, causing ...

Thawing permafrost may release greenhouse gases much faster than previously expected, potentially accelerating climate change ...

Around 20,000 years ago, the world was so frigid that massive glaciers sucked up enough water to lower sea levels by 400 feet. As the sea pulled back, newly exposed land froze to form permafrost, a ...

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. To enter the Fox permafrost tunnel—one of the only places in the world dedicated to the firsthand scientific ...