For years, scientists have debated whether a giant thick ice shelf once covered the entire Arctic Ocean during the coldest ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the Arctic Ocean when Earth’s ...

Scientists have found evidence that the Asian continent was free of permafrost all the way to its northerly coast with the Arctic Ocean when Earth's ...

This conclusion was made by a group of Russian researchers led by MIPT Professor Alena Favorskaya. One of the main obstacles to Arctic infrastructures construction is that in freezing wet soils emerge ...

The Trump administration announced a plan on June 17 to open nearly 82% of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and ...

Caribou, migrating birds and many other types of wildlife rely on this expanse of wetlands and tundra. Humanity and the ...

Beneath Svalbard’s permafrost, millions of cubic meters of methane are trapped — and scientists have now learned that it can migrate beneath the cold seal of the permafrost and escape. A large-scale ...

A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.

In the Arctic, one of the primary paths for water to flow is along water tracks, stream-like features that fill with and ...

Lightning strikes in the Arctic have surged in recent years, raising alarms among scientists about their role in wildfires, ...

Frozen in Siberian permafrost, originally believed to be among the earliest domesticated dogs, the “Tumat Puppies” enthralled ...