US biotechnology company Colossal Laboratories and Biosciences has a radical proposal: it wants to resurrect the woolly ...

Permafrost is like Earth's ancient freezer ... alleviating the impacts of exploiting such oil-rich deposits. Southeast Asia's ...

Arctic temperatures spiked 36 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20 Celsius, above normal. By the end of the month, sea ice was at its ...

Woolly mammoths once roamed icy landscapes before going extinct around 4,000 years ago. Now, US biotech firm Colossal ...

The discovery of a Scythian boot provides insight into the craftsmanship and daily life of the ancient Scythian nomads.

A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from around the world in man-made caves on a remote Norwegian Arctic island will receive more than 14,000 new samples on Tuesday, a custodian of the facility ...

“We're in that period of time now,” she said, “where the changes are so erratic and so extreme, there's a good chance your sites will either be burned, actively on fire or flooded because the ...

One of these remarkable places is the Arctic Coastal Plain. Whale bone pile, Wainwright, Alaska. Over a decade ago, our ...

As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws, the ground collapses, forming craters or lakes. This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Sergey Zimov, right ...

The pipeline will be buried in a trench, mostly in permafrost.' And we looked at each other in sort of a manner of disbelief." — Art Lachenbruch, U.S. Geological Survey Art Lachenbruch was a ...