Beneath the Arctic permafrost, ancient organisms have lain dormant for approximately 40,000 years, preserved in a frozen ...

The frozen, barren soil of the Arctic isn’t as lifeless as it looks. Locked inside the permafrost is a strikingly diverse ...

Some of the microbes thawed from these long-frozen soils have been trapped for 40,000 years. Now, they've been reawakened.

In the Arctic tundra of Alaska, climate change is forcing an Alaska Native village to relocate. Rising temperatures are ...

The experiments offer new insights into one of the “biggest unknowns” in how the climate will change in the years to come ...

Once they awaken, these microbes continue to break down soil and release carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.

Despite the Arctic's worsening, ongoing warming, an unexpected trend has been uncovered: A 13-year streak of no new records ...

Every time you eat a blueberry, the microbiome in your gut gets to work. Bacterial enzymes attack the organic compounds of the fruit: a burbling, gurgling digestive process that can, often to our ...

New NASA-funded research has discovered that Arctic permafrost’s expected gradual thawing and the associated release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere may actually be sped up by instances of a ...

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