An international team of scientists has discovered that methane hydrates beneath the northwest Greenland continental shelf ...

Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were created when Arctic methane ...

A 24,000-year-old microscopic worm, a bdelloid rotifer, has been revived from Siberian permafrost, astonishing scientists ...

Spread the loveIntroduction A recent breakthrough study published in Nature has sent shockwaves through the scientific community and the public at large. This landmark research reveals that climate ...

Thawing permafrost has released so much methane into Esieh Lake near Fairbanks, Alaska that the air above it is flammable.

A buried glacier hidden beneath the Canadian Arctic is giving scientists a rare glimpse into Earth’s distant climatic past.

The U.S. Energy Department is excited about what it calls unprecedented tests on Alaska's North Slope that produced a steady flow of gas from methane hydrates. These are structures that look like ice ...

New research reveals that half of the microorganisms in High Arctic soils remain dormant after thawing, challenging previous ...

As the Arctic warms at an unprecedented rate, frozen soils that have remained locked in ice for most of the year are now ...

Chromatiaceae: Purple sulfur bacteria & H 2 S herald Earth's ancient past. The Permian extinction is repeating. Why the elite ...

The Earth has many layers in the atmosphere that help sustain life on the blue planet, and while the cryosphere might sound ...

For decades, the "clathrate gun hypothesis" was treated by the mainstream scientific establishment as a fringe nightmare—a scenario where warming oceans and thawing permafrost would release massive ...