Scientists have recovered 6-million-year-old ice from Antarctica. This ice contains air bubbles from Earth's ancient atmosphere. It offers ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s May 2026 visit to Norway — the first by an Indian Prime Minister in over 40 years — upgraded bilateral ties ...

‘Zombie Worm’ revived by scientists: A 24,000-year-old microscopic worm, a bdelloid rotifer, has been revived from Siberian permafrost, ast...

A striking satellite image reveals Gee Lake on Baffin Island, a remnant of the ancient Laurentide Ice Sheet. This ice cap, dating back 20,0...

Ancient Arctic caves hold secrets of a warmer past. Mineral deposits show the region was once free of permafrost, experiencing much higher ...

Vast carbon reserves lie hidden beneath farms, forests, and frozen Arctic soil. These underground stores, built over centuries, are now und...

Beneath American soil, vast carbon reserves are stored. These underground stores, built over centuries and millennia, are now a focus for s...

Fossil evidence from the High Arctic reveals that palm trees and subtropical plants once thrived in the polar region. This occurred during ...

Fossil evidence reveals that the Arctic was once a warm, forested region supporting large mammals such as hornless rhinoceroses and dinosau...

Tiny dinosaur fossils unearthed in Alaska reveal that baby dinosaurs were born and raised through harsh Arctic winters, enduring months of ...

World Health Organization is preparing for future pandemics. It tested global readiness with 'Exercise Polaris'. The exercise simulated an ...

Researchers have uncovered nearly 1,700 ancient virus species in the glacial ice of the Himalayas, with about three-quarters previously unk...

As the Earth warms and ancient permafrost thaws, dormant pathogens pose a potential threat to public health. French virologist Jean-Michel ...

By pulling dozens of species out of just a few sediment samples, the study highlights some of eDNA's advantages, said Benjamin Vernot, an a...

Underground heat would have been possible 4.1 bn years ago or in the Noachian era on Mars.

Washington, Aug 19 (IANS) Arctic permafrost's expected gradual thawing due to climate change and the associated influx of greenhouse gases ...

Even if they did not have the benefit of sophisticated scientific data, they were better equipped to take on whatever the planet dished out.