Russia started organizing a system of the permafrost's reference monitoring. The system's purpose is to assess the current conditions, to forecast changes and to cut negative effects of melting ...

Where people endure -50C A 2017 report to the Arctic Council, an international forum which includes Russia, warned that because of global warming and melting ice, foundations in permafrost regions ...

A decade ago, a mysterious crater appeared in the Russian Arctic ... the top layer of soil is melting, causing water to trickle down through the permafrost and into the cryopeg, seeping into ...

TASS/. The organization of joint Russian-Chinese permafrost polygons will expand scientific knowledge to get adapted to the cryolithozone melting, Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of ...

Like cities and towns across northern and north-eastern Russia, Churapcha is suffering the consequence of climate change thawing the permafrost on which everything is built. This is a Russian ...

The bear was revealed by the melting permafrost on the Lyakhovsky Islands in north-eastern Russia. With its teeth and nose intact, the bear is thought to be a species of brown bear that lived ...

The cub is part of the homotherium genus, which lived across North America, Eurasia and Africa from around 4 million years ...

The sabre-toothed cat cub is almost small enough to hold in one hand, but its discovery after 32,000 years is a momentous ...

Sergey Zimov, right, and his son, Nikita, run an Arctic research station in Cherskiy, Russia, along the Kolyma River. The elder Zimov first figured out that permafrost stores far more carbon than ...

Another cave bear's carcass — a cub — was recently found in Yakutia, Russia, so scientists hope to compare the two animals' DNA. As the planet warms, the Siberian permafrost — ground that ...