As permafrost laced with buried ice thaws ... It was summer in eastern Siberia, far above the Arctic Circle, in that part of Russia that’s closer to Alaska than to Moscow.

The leaked diesel oil drifted some 12km (7.5 miles) from the site of the accident Russian prosecutors have ordered checks at "particularly dangerous installations" built on permafrost after a huge ...

It goes like this: beneath the ground is thick permafrost — a jumble of soil, rocks and sediment held together by ice. Underneath this sits a layer of “methane hydrates,” a solid form of ...

Hot summer weather is not uncommon in the Arctic Circle, but recent months have ... is leading to the thawing of once permanently frozen permafrost below ground. This is alarming scientists ...

While searching for mammoth tusks in eastern Siberia, scavengers found a rare ice mummy along the banks of the Badyarikha ...