A new study says billions of tonnes of defrosted carbon could end up getting released into the atmosphere by 2100 as a result of melting permafrost, further adding to the planet's warming from more ...

Nearly 70 percent of the roads, pipelines, cities and industry -- mostly in Russia -- built on the region's softening ground are highly vulnerable to acute damage by mid-century, according to one of ...

The frozen, barren soil of the Arctic isn’t as lifeless as it looks. Locked inside the permafrost is a strikingly diverse community of microbes. They’ve been asleep for millennia, alive, but inactive, ...