Tiffany Windholz and Maamcuk Foss walking along the bank of the Kuskokwim River mapping the ongoing erosion in Akiak. (Darcy Peter) Maamcuk Foss walked along the edge of the Kuskokwim River in Akiak.

The study describes how the thawed viruses happily invaded the cultured amoeba cells, and in a matter of hours, turned them into factories to produce more ancient viruses. Share on Facebook (opens in ...

Ancient life has been resurrected from the bowels of a military tunnel that penetrates the Alaskan permafrost. Some of the microbes thawed from these long-frozen soils have been trapped for 40,000 ...

Researchers revived a giant virus that had been buried in Siberian permafrost for 30,000 years, NBC News reported. Although the virus only infects single-celled organisms and can't harm humans, its ...

A study has explored a potential link between Arctic ice melt and the spread of a virus. It appears that a virus commonly found in ...

In Norway's remote Longyearbyen, a unique law prohibits dying or being born due to permafrost preserving ancient viruses.

Remains of a well-preserved baby mammoth discovered in Siberian permafrost YAKUTSK, Russia (Reuters) - Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved ...

Some of the regions changing the fastest due to climate change are in the far north of the U.S. and Canada. According to a new paper in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the fastest-changing ...

YAKUTSK, Russia, June 28 (Reuters) - In Russia's far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for around 44,000 years, a find they said ...