Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age ...

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

Using samples gathered from a permafrost tunnel north of Fairbanks, researchers have awakened microbes that were last active ...

In a new study, a team of geologists and biologists led by CU Boulder resurrected ancient microbes that had been trapped in ice—in some cases for around 40,000 years. The study is a showcase of the ...

Deep below the surface of some of the planet’s northernmost wilderness, the soil and rock has been frozen for millions of years. It’s called permafrost, and in central Alaska just south of the Arctic ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, and communities. Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent ...

Frozen in time, ancient microbes or their remains could be found in Martian ice deposits during future missions to the red ...

As permafrost thaws in northern regions, it loses its meaning as "permanently frozen ground". This thaw is accompanied by hundreds of phenomena that need to be named.

In 1973, Elden Johnson was a young engineer working on one of the most ambitious and uncertain projects in the world — an 800-mile steel pipeline that carried warm oil over frozen ground. Decades ...

The land affected becomes largely useless for agriculture and infrastructure. YAKUTSK, Russia -- Thirty years ago, the road out from the village of Mai was flat. So were the fields around it, enough ...

Tom Douglas of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory drills into subsurface permafrost under Alaska to study microbe warming. Shared by Tristan Caro Deep below the surface of some of ...