From the ancient sludge of lakebeds in Asia’s Tibetan Plateau, scientists can decipher a vision of Earth’s future. That future, it turns out, will look very similar to the mid-Pliocene warm period – ...

Ancient microbes locked in Arctic ice for tens of thousands of years are starting to wake up as permafrost thaws. Scientists ...

Scientists have reactivated 40,000-year-old microbes from thawing Alaskan permafrost, raising concerns about their potential to release greenhouse gases. The organisms, dormant since the Ice Age, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Water from the Mackenzie River, seen from a satellite, carries silt and nutrients from land to the Arctic Ocean. Jesse Allen/NASA ...

Permafrost soils store large quantities of organic carbon and are often portrayed as a critical tipping element in the Earth system, which, once global warming has reached a certain level, suddenly ...

CHANGE IN THE AIR: Thawing permafrost covering almost a quarter of the northern hemisphere could “significantly amplify global warming” at a time when the world is already struggling to reign in ...

Permafrost acts as a natural "shield" that limits global warming. This conclusion was reached by specialists from Tomsk State University together with colleagues from the Institute for Integrated ...

The Permafrost Tunnel north of Fairbanks, Alaska, was dug in the 1960s and is run by the U.S. Army’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory. It is the site of much research into permafrost — ...

(AP) Thawing permafrost covering almost a quarter of the northern hemisphere could significantly amplify global warming at a time when the world is already struggling to reign in rising greenhouse ...

DOHA (Reuters) - Permafrost lands across Siberia and Alaska that contain vast stores of carbon are beginning to thaw, bringing with it the threat of a big increase in global warming by 2100, a U.N.