By bne Dublin bureau An international team of scientists from Britain, Switzerland, Israel and the United States has analysed ...

The post 14,000 Years After They Were Buried Under A Siberian Landslide, Two Permafrost-Preserved Puppies Have Finally Been Identified first on TwistedSifter. In 2011, an unusual find in northern ...

Mineral cave deposits from northern Siberia show that the region was permafrost free during the late Miocene period, when ...

The experts discovered the seeds in an Arctic squirrel burrow. After unsuccessful attempts to germinate them, they opted for ...

Only eight of these craters have been identified so far, all within a very specific area: the Western Siberian Yamal and Gydan peninsulas in Northern Russia. Exploding lakes, by contrast, are seen ...

But one thing is already clear: Since the current scenarios don’t fully account for these feedback effects, the world will ...

Mysterious craters that first appeared in the Siberian permafrost a decade ago were caused by climate change-driven pressure changes that explosively released methane frozen underground, a new ...

Some Siberian samples of permafrost date back as far as 650,000 years. French scientist Jean-Michel Claverie and his research team from IGS (Information Génomique et Structurale), at Aix ...

The term "permafrost" describes earth that has been frozen for two or more consecutive years. Two years is a minimum, and some areas in Siberia have been frozen for over 650,000.

I am stunned. Siberia, despite the dark reputation it shares among Westerners and Russians alike, is more than Dickensian factory towns, permafrost and gulag.

The permafrost can keep secrets, but it can also testify to crimes. For scientists, Batagaika provides an invaluable glimpse into the past 650,000 years or so of Siberia’s history, including its ...